IRAF

IRAF is the image reduction and analysis facility. It has been ​ITP'ed for debian, but is apparently not in debian due to some licensing wrangling.

Some older debianized packages appear to be available from ​ftp://iraf.noao.edu/contrib/debian/

It also appears that the User commnunity at ​iraf.net is ​reporting success on ubuntu (however vaguely).

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Fernando Camilo wrote:


>> Could you please let me know whether there are any known issues for IRAF 
>> running under Linux Debian 3.1 (sarge)?  We are building a new Linux-based 
>> computing network here at the Columbia Astrophysics Lab and want to make 
>> sure that the key packages will work under our proposed operating system.


	There are no particular issues assuming you use the "linux" 
architecture and our distribution.  The various debian packages *do*
have known problems with compiling locally and/or running at all and
appear to have since been abandoned by the package maintainer.  64-bit
systems still aren't supported but other wise proceed with a normal
installation using the LNUX architecture and you should be fine.

Cheers,
Mike Fitzpatrick


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NOTE:  As of Jan 1, 2006 NOAO  no longer operates a HelpDesk for
IRAF at iraf@noao.edu.   Support is being moved to a forum-based system
at http://iraf.net, please post future questions to that site.  Thanks.