Re: Instaling IRAF

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Marcus Vinicius M.Fernandes wrote:

> Hello
>
> I've just intalled the Cygwin im my laptop and it's working well. But I'm an
> astrophysic and I would like to install a software named IRAF
> (http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html). This is a RPM. But the instalation
> does not proceed, showing messages about missing packages. The setup-
> 2.4...rpm is one of them.
>
> Could you help me to install the IRAF software?
>
> Thank you.
> Marcus
>
> Ps: The IRAF is easily installed under any Linux operating system.

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CYNUX>.  Cygwin doesn't run Linux binaries --
to be able to run something, you'll need to *port* it (or find a port).
	Igor
P.S. This question has nothing to do with X, so belongs on the main Cygwin
list instead.  Please send follow-ups there.
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