installation of kcorrect & idlutils

Assuming that the user home directory is /Users/name (like my macbook air) and all the stuff will be installed under /Users/name/lib. 

add the following lines to .bashrc :

export IDL_PATH=+/usr/local/rsi:$IDL_PATH export IDLUTILS_DIR=/Users/name/lib/idlutils export PATH=$IDLUTILS_DIR/bin:$PATH export IDL_PATH=+$IDLUTILS_DIR/pro:$IDL_PATH export IDL_PATH=+$IDLUTILS_DIR/goddard/pro:$IDL_PATH

And then, download IDLUTILS and compile it :




$ . ~/.bashrc

$ mkdir -p ~/lib

$ cd ~/lib

$ svn ls http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlutils/tags

... a list of tags; the latest version v5_5_12 here...

$ svn export http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlutils/tags/v5_5_12 idlutils

$ cd $IDLUTILS_DIR

$ evilmake all

Add the following lines to .bashrc :

export KCORRECT_DIR=/Users/name/lib/kcorrect export PATH=$KCORRECT_DIR/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$KCORRECT_DIR/lib export IDL_PATH=$IDL_PATH:+$KCORRECT_DIR/pro

Download the tarball and compile the source codes:

$ . ~/.bashrc $ cd ~/lib $ wget http://cosmo.nyu.edu/blanton/kcorrect/kcorrect.v4_2.tar.gz $ tar -xvzf kcorrect.v4_2.tar.gz $ cd kcorrect $ evilmake -k all

Test as below : 

$ idl IDL Version 8.0.1 (linux x86_64 m64). (c) 2010, ITT Visual Information Solutions Installation number: XXXXXX. Licensed for use by: Saint Mary's Univ, Astronomy and Physics   IDL> kcorrect, [1., 4.78, 10.96, 14.45, 19.05],  $ IDL>           [1100., 28., 7.7, 4.4, 2.5], $ IDL>           0.03, kcorrect, band_shift=0.1, chi2=chi2   ... bunch of output ...   IDL> print, kcorrect     -0.381880    -0.342148    -0.191399    -0.158157    -0.132817

(The original post written by Taro)