[daip] Issue with installation {External}

[egreisen]

On 2023-03-16 02:26, DHARMENDER via Daip wrote:
> Hello sir/ma'am,
>  I am a Master's student and I have been trying to install AIPS via
> 'install.pl' file provided on the main site on my ubuntu dektop
> (v22.04) since the past month. But for some reason, it fails to
> compile certain packages (F2PS, F2TEXT, NEWEST, PRINTENV, AIPWD,
> REVENV) and building of  PP preprocessor (PP.EXE), due to these
> issues, it is preventing further required packages to build and
> install such as INSTEP2 , XASTV, AIPS TV and so on.
>  I went through a similiar issue on
> (https://listmgr.nrao.edu/pipermail/daip/2001-February/001143.html
> [1]) but it didn't help me.
> 
>  Any help regarding this issue will be really helpful for me.
> 
>  Thanking you in advance,
>  Dharmender

The old listmgr ticket is similar to what I would have to ask you
also - Pat asked the user for more information and suggested a
particular compile command that might have produced useful error
messages.  I will need that if you really wish to compile AIPS
for yourself locally.  Fortunately, there is a much better option
these days if you do not need to write your own AIPS tasks.  We
offer a binary version for Linux 64-bit machines.  You install it
with

perl install.pl -n

where the -n means "network".  Try this unless you know that you
will write your own AIPS programs.

Eric Greisen