Hi Matt and thanks for your message. I have a couple of addiitonal questions:
0. install fink and fink's g77 and wget.
done, using fink install wget; OK
1. install the Ifeffit binary from ifeffit-1.2.5a_Mac10.3.dmg. This step is to install PGPLOT correctly: the problem in question is not with PGPLOT.
done. OK.
2. install Perl/Tk from source: 2.1 download Tk-804.027.tar.gz from a CPAN site ~> wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/NI-S/Tk-804.027.tar.gz
QUESTION: is there a directory where I should download the file and then follow up with the subsequent instructions?
2.2 unpack Tk-804.027 ~> tar xvzf Tk-804.027.tar.gz 2.3 change line 2809 of pTk/mTk/tixGeneric/tixHList.c from '#if 0' to '#if 1' 2.4 build Perl/Tk: ~>perl Makefile.PL ; make 2.5 install Perl/Tk ~>sudo make install
3. install ifeffit from source: 3.1 download: ~>wget http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/src/ifeffit-1.2.5.tar.gz
QUESTION: : is there a directory where I should download the file and then follow up with the subsequent instructions?
3.2 unpack: ~>tar xvzf ifeffit-1.2.5.tar.gz 3.3 configure ~>./configure --prefix=/Applications/Ifeffit
QUESTION: I do not seem to have, in tcsh, the command "configure"
3.4 build ~> make 3.5 install ~> sudo make install
4. install horae 4.1 set up to use ifeffit: ~>. /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/iff_init.sh if you're using bash and ~>source /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/iff_init.csh if you're using csh or tcsh (if you don't know which shell you're using, try both and whichever complains is the wrong one!) 4.2 install horae ~>horae_update --force
QUESTION: Is there a directory where I should download the file and then follow up with the subsequent instructions? The directories location may be crucial, as well as the solution to the configure command. another QUESTION: are there any files I should delete and from which directory before doing the whole thing from scratch? Also: Is the question related to which Tk/perl version I should have installed still valid? It is not clear, from your web page, whether the comments for the Linux installation are also related to the OSX. Looking forward to hearing from you. Stefano -- ____________________________________________ Stefano Ciurli Professor of Chemistry Department of Agro-Environmental Science and Technology University of Bologna Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 40 I-40127 Bologna Italy Phone: +39-051-209-6204 Fax: +39-051-209-6203 "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza" Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Canto XXVI