Installation of SCISOFT into an Ubuntu:

• Download scisoft.tar to your / directory
  cd /
  sudo tar xvzf scisoft.tar
  sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386
  sudo apt-get install tcsh:i386 libgfortran3:i386 libreadline5:i386
  sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386
  sudo apt-get install unixodbc:i386 libxft2:i386 libxrandr2:i386
  sudo apt-get install libxmu6:i386 libxss1:i386
  echo “. /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash” >> ~/.bash_profile
  source ~/.bash_profile
  run ecl…done
  if necessary:
• sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386
• sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6
• for ds9: libpng error: sudo rm -r /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto
• (or more for necessary lib: lib32stdc++6  libxft2:i386)

Installation of SCISOFT into an Centos:

• Download scisoft.tar to your / directory or move scisoft.tar file from where you downloaded to / :
  cd /
• sudo tar xvzf scisoft.tar

• yum install glibc.i686
• yum install libXmu-1.1.2-2.el7.i686
• yum install ncurses-libs-5.9-14.20130511.el7_4.i686
• yum install libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-6.1.el7.i686
• yum install libXft-2.3.2-2.el7.i686
• yum install libXrandr-1.5.1-2.el7.i686
• yum install libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7.5.i686
• yum install libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7_9.6.i686

  echo “. /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash” >> ~/.bash_profile
  source ~/.bash_profile
  run ecl…done

Installation of SCISOFT into a MAC:

Download scisoft_mac.tar
your directory doesn’t matter
tar xvzf scisoft_mac.tar
run the pkg file.
echo “. /usr/local/scisoft/bin/Setup.bash” >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
edit the following file with a text editor: /usr/local/scisoft/packages/iraf/iraf/hlib/extern.pkg
sudo nano /usr/local/scisoft/packages/iraf/iraf/hlib/extern.pkg
inside the file, find the line “if (!defvar(“helpdb”)) {” and put “#” character in front of these 4 lines related with helpdb
run ecl…done