[daip] AIPS installation {External}

[egreisen]

On 2022-02-15 12:46, Prof. Dr. Uli Klein wrote:
> I'm typing this:
> 
> ftp ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/software//aips/31DEC16/31DEC16.tar.gz [1] .
> 
> expecting that I'd now get the gzipped tar file deposited in the
> current directory. Is this wrong?
> 

This is not the correct way to do ftp - this might work as a wget
command.  For ftp

ftp ftp.aoc.nrao.edu
anonymous
something
cd pub/software/aips/31DEC21
binary
get install.pl
get 31DEC21.tar.gz


31DEC16 is not available and your initial email stated that you wanted 
31DEC21
which is much more reasonable.  In fact the ftp command you gave might 
work if
corrected to 31DEC21 2 places but it looks more like a wget command.

But do you really need to compile AIPS locally.  You could get just the 
install.pl
file and then install it by entering

perl install.pl -n

where the -n says you want the NRAO-compiled version over the network 
(via rsync).

Eric Greisen