Starlink Software Collection - Download and Install

Five distributions of the Humu release of the Starlink Software Collection are available:

The Intel OS X 10.4 distribution will work on Intel OS X 10.5 as well.

Parties interested in releases for other platforms (i.e. Solaris, PPC OS X 10.4) can email <scicom AT SPAMFREE eao DOT hawaii DOT edu>. Please note that the Joint Astronomy Centre only runs Linux operationally and can only devote time and resources to Linux builds; all others (including those not listed here) are supported on a best-efforts basis.

There have been a number of requests for a PPC OS X 10.4 build. The Joint Astronomy Centre does not have any PPC hardware running 10.4 and can thus not provide this build. We have build instructions for those who wish to build the software themselves. If you have built the Starlink Software Collection on PPC OS X 10.4, please email <scicom AT SPAMFREE eao DOT hawaii DOT edu> so we can make it available to the community.

Installation instructions

Linux

The tar file will unzip into a star/ directory in the directory you downloaded the tar file to. This release can be placed anywhere. When using the software, set the STARLINK_DIR environment variable to the location of the star/ directory, i.e. if I had unzipped it into a /home/bradc/software directory, then the STARLINK_DIR environment variable would be set to /home/bradc/software/star.

On some systems you may need the libg2c.so library. On Fedora Core (and presumably all Red Hat-derivative systems) this can be found in the compat-gcc-32 RPM. On Ubuntu (and presumably all Debian-derivative systems) this can be found in the libg2c0 package.

The 64-bit release requires glibc 2.5 and fairly recent versions of the X11 libraries (7.1 or higher). An up-to-date Gentoo, Fedora Core 6, or SUSE 10.1 are distributions that are known to work.

Note: The 64-bit keoe release installed into a star64/ directory. This has changed to standardise on a star/ installation location.

OS X

The tar file will unzip into a star/ directory in the directory where you downloaded the tar file. As with the Linux distribution, this release can be placed anywhere. However, this functionality has not been tested on OS X, so it is recommended that the software be placed in the /star directory, or have a /star softlink pointing to the installation location.

The Intel release was built on OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It has not been tested on 10.5 (Leopard). The PPC release was built on OS X 10.5.

If you have not installed the OS X SDK, you will need to install it to obtain the ncurses library. It is located on the Tiger installation DVD, or Disc 1 of your hardware's installation CDs (open the "Xcode Tools" folder, then double-click the "XcodeTools.mpkg" package). This will also install X11, which is needed for the various graphical Starlink programs like GAIA or KAPPA/DISPLAY.

Note: The PPC keoe and hokulei releases installed into a local-star/ directory. This has changed to standardise on a star/ installation location.

Post-installation Run-up

To set up your environment for use with the Starlink Software Collection, first set the STARLINK_DIR environment variable to the location of the star/ directory. For example, if you downloaded the tarball to /home/bradc/software and unzipped it there, the STARLINK_DIR environment variable to /home/bradc/software/star. It is recommended that you edit the star/etc/login, star/etc/cshrc and star/etc/profile files to set this environment variable at the top of each file.

To use the Starlink Software Collection on csh and related shells (like tcsh), source $STARLINK_DIR/etc/login and $STARLINK_DIR/etc/cshrc. On sh and related shells (like bash), source $STARLINK_DIR/etc/profile.

ORAC-DR for WFCAM

Because of the large size of WFCAM calibration files, they have been split off from the main download tarballs, as not everybody will be reducing WFCAM data using ORAC-DR. These calibrations can be downloaded here (902MB .tar.gz). The tar file will unzip into a wfcam/ directory in the directory you downloaded the tar file to. To install these calibration files, copy the directory into the $STARLINK_DIR/bin/oracdr/cal/ directory, thus creating the $STARLINK_DIR/bin/oracdr/cal/wfcam/ directory containing the calibration files.

This file has changed for the humu release, as it provides updated flats.

Starlink: HumuDownload (last edited 2015-06-17 20:57:01 by GrahamBell)