Uninstalling IRAF from a MAC

[jparmas]

How can I uninstall IRAF from a MAC and turn back to how it was before I installed it?

[olebole]

You should remove the IRAF directory tree and the directory .iraf in your home dir. Then remove the following lines from your shell login scripts:

# Add iraf setup commands
if [ -e /users/jparmas/.iraf/setup.sh ]; then
    source /users/jparmas/.iraf/setup.sh
fi

They however don't harm when the .iraf directory was removed.

[jparmas]

Thank you very much Ole for the response!! The reason I want to remove it is because I followed the instructions to install it in my MAC OS and didn't work. Maybe you can help me with some instructions to make it work in my mac before I go ahead and erase it. Mine is Macbook Air 8GB 13-inch, Mid 2013. I would really appreciate it we can make it work in my machine. I already run the Terminal script that comes with the files in the [iraf-2.16.1-2021.06.14] version and it seems to be installed, but It wont open... THANKSSSS!!! Juan Pablo

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 2:10 AM Ole Streicher ***@***.***> wrote: You should remove the IRAF directory tree and the directory .iraf in your home dir. Then remove the following lines from your shell login scripts: # Add iraf setup commandsif [ -e /users/jparmas/.iraf/setup.sh ]; then source /users/jparmas/.iraf/setup.shfi They however don't harm when the .iraf directory was removed. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#176 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AUQKYFMDTA35IADSGE6QRHLTTGGXDANCNFSM462M2U4A> .

[olebole]

Please write exactly what you did. Also, did you run the tests? What was the result? What is the "terminal script"? etc.

[olebole]

One general comment: IRAF is really legacy code. I would not recommend to start anything new with IRAF. This will be a dead end. Instead, consider Astropy for analysis, which is already quite complete. Time is better invested in improving astropy than in trying to get IRAF running.

[jparmas]

By the way, these lines you suggested to erase from the shell login scripts in case of removing IRAF, are THE ONLY LINES of my .bash_login file Is it safe to erase the .bash_login file?? Or I need to erase them somewhere else? Thanks! Thanks JPA

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 2:10 AM Ole Streicher ***@***.***> wrote: You should remove the IRAF directory tree and the directory .iraf in your home dir. Then remove the following lines from your shell login scripts: # Add iraf setup commandsif [ -e /users/jparmas/.iraf/setup.sh ]; then source /users/jparmas/.iraf/setup.shfi They however don't harm when the .iraf directory was removed. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#176 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AUQKYFMDTA35IADSGE6QRHLTTGGXDANCNFSM462M2U4A> .

[olebole]

You can remove it completely.

[jparmas]

The truth is that your comment makes a lot of sense to me. I will give it a try and spend my time on astropy and uninstall IRAF. Thank you very much for your help!!! JP

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On Jun 17, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Ole Streicher ***@***.***> wrote: One general comment: IRAF is really legacy code. I would not recommend to start anything new with IRAF. This will be a dead end. Instead, consider Astropy for analysis, which is already quite complete. Time is better invested in improving astropy than in trying to get IRAF running. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#176 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AUQKYFIGP4LYK5Z75IJJWFDTTI5JDANCNFSM462M2U4A>.