## page was copied from 2014ADownload ## page was copied from HikianaliaDownload ## page was copied from KapuahiDownload = Starlink Software Collection - Download and Install 2015A = [[2015A|2015A release notes]] Two distributions of the 2015A release of the Starlink Software Collection are available: * [[http://ftp.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink/2015A/starlink-2015A-Linux.tar.gz|Linux (64-bit, CentOS 6)]] (910 MB .tar.gz, md5sum: 5df35df3bc3017338001eed0c8ff5ad5) * [[http://ftp.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink/2015A/starlink-2015A-OSX.tar.gz|OS X (64-bit, Intel)]] (691 MB .tar.gz, md5sum: 3c125b29083e9e157a9e06dfd4a8d9f1) To check the MD5 checksum of your downloaded file, run either the `md5sum`, `md5`, or `md5deep` command, depending on which you have installed. The above Linux distribution is built on `glibc 2.12`. Older versions of glibc might not work and are currently not supported. To check your glibc version, type "`rpm -qi glibc`" on RedHat-related distributions. This Mac OS X software was built on Yosemite, but is believed to run on all versions from Snow Leopard onwards. Please note that the East Asian Observatory does not, however, have access to versions of OSX prior to Yosemite for testing or bug fixing. Parties interested in releases for other platforms (i.e. Solaris) can email <>. Please note that the East Asian Observatory 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. == Installation instructions == === Linux === The tar file will unzip into a `star-2015A/` directory in the directory where you downloaded the tar file. This release can be placed anywhere. When using the software, set the `STARLINK_DIR` environment variable to the location of the `star-2015A/` directory, i.e. if you had unzipped it into a `/home/person/software` directory, then the `STARLINK_DIR` environment variable would be set to `/home/person/software/star-2015A`. The release requires `glibc` 2.12 and fairly recent versions of the X11 libraries. Up-to-date CentOS and Fedora Core 6 are distributions that are known to work. We welcome reports of successful installation on other distributions. On Arch Linux you may require old libraries from the AUR such as `libtinfo`, `libjpeg6` and `libpng12`. === OS X === This OS X software was built on Yosemite, and we believe it works correctly on all versions from Snow Leopard onwards. However, EAO does not have the resources to test on all older versions of OSX and we now only have Yosemite OSX machines available in house. The tar ball will unzip into a `star-2015A/` directory in the directory where you downloaded and un-tarred the tar file. This release can be placed and run from anywhere, unlike previous OSX starlink releases which had to be installed into root. ==== OSX REQUIREMENTS ==== 1. An up-to-date XQuartz X11 distribution must be installed. If you already have XQuartz installed but need to update it, you can run the application and go to the top menu and select: X11->Check for X11 updates. If you need to install the software, it can be found here: [[http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/|http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing]]. 2. Java must be installed to use the Starjava programmes `topcat`, `splat` and `frog`. This can be found at [[https://www.java.com/en/]]. To check if you have Java installed already, open a terminal, type `java` and see if the command is found. There should not be any other dependencies for installing the OS X build; this is a change from previous releases which required manual installation of various libraries. == Post-installation Run-up == Before you can run the Starlink Software Collection, you need to run our setup scripts. This will have to be done every time you open a new terminal, before you can run any Starlink commands. If your terminal is running `bash` or other `sh`-like shell (this is the usual default on modern Linux distributions and Mac OS X) please type the following commands into your terminal: `export STARLINK_DIR=/star-2015A` `source $STARLINK_DIR/etc/profile` If you have installed your star-2015A somewhere other than into the root directory (`/`) you would instead set the first command to point to the location of the installed star-2015A/ directory. e.g., if you had put it in your home directory, you would type: `export STARLINK_DIR=/home/MyUserName/star-2015A` `source $STARLINK_DIR/etc/profile` Some astronomy departments still set up their computers to use `tcsh` as the default shell instead of `bash`. The setup process is similar, but the commands are slightly different. If you have installed star-2015A into the root directory, you will need to type the following commands into your terminal: `setenv STARLINK_DIR /star-2015A` `source $STARLINK_DIR/etc/login` `source $STARLINK_DIR/etc/cshrc` And again, similar to the bash shell instructions above, if you have installed star-2015A into a different directory you will have to give the path to that directory in your first command (and still run the following two commands) e.g.: `setenv STARLINK_DIR /home/MyUserName/star-2015A` You can now run Starlink commands within your current terminal. Any time you wish to start using Starlink Software in a new terminal, you will need to run the appropriate 2 or 3 commands above again. For convenience, you could save these commands into an alias. === Running Software Packages === For most command line packages, typing the name of a package will make its commands available to use, tell you that it has been loaded, and tell you what command to run to find out more about the package. For example, try typing: `kappa` into your terminal. Some Starlink software also launches a graphical interface. If you type: `gaia &` into your terminal, the GAIA data visualisation software will launch and you can load in astronomy maps and cubes to view (both .sdf and .fits formats are supported.) === IMPORTANT NOTE (for Linux only in this release) === The setup scripts put the 'Starlink' version of various libraries into your `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` variable. Unfortunately, this means that after sourcing the Starlink setup scripts, other command line programs (such as e.g. CASA) may not work ''inside the terminal in which you sourced Starlink''. To get around this, simply: 1. Don't source the Starlink scripts by default (e.g. don't put the commands into your `.bashrc`, `.profile`, `.login` or `.cshrc` files), but instead source them manually every time you're running Starlink software. 2. Run other software (such as CASA) in a different terminal from the one in which you are running Starlink. The OS X build of Starlink does not need to set the equivalent path (`$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH`), so Mac OS X users do not need to worry about this. == 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 [[http://starlink.eao.hawaii.edu/extras/oracdr_cal_wfcam-lehuakona.tar.gz|downloaded here]] (901MB .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 not changed for the 2015A release, so if you downloaded it for intervening releases after the lehuakona release, you need not download it again.