ds9: cannot execute

[manulcaux]

Hi,

I followed the instructions given in the ticket:54389 to install ds9 on my MacBook Pro. Everything seems to be OK during the "installation", but I do not have a working ds9 after. If I type ds9 in a new terminal, I just have "command not found", same is true for saoimage.

I search where ds9 was installed, and found a SAOImage\ DS9.app/ in /opt/local/var/macports/software/ds9/Applications/MacPorts

but it doesn't seems to be working :

sudo SAOImage\ DS9.app/
Password:
sudo: SAOImage DS9.app/: command not found
[macp2034:ds9/Applications/MacPorts] caux%

Many thanks to give me more instructions to have a working ds9.

Cheers,

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Do you mean /Applications/MacPorts/? An .app bundle is meant to be opened from Finder. You cannot run it with sudo and you also should not need to.

[manulcaux]

Hi,

No, I was looking where the command sudo port install ds9 would have installed it as it was not working when typing ds9 (or saoimage) in a new terminal after the macport installation. Doing this check, I found a new ds9 application in the directory /opt/local/var/macports/software/ds9/Applications/MacPorts, it is why I tried to launch it from there.

The problem is the command sudo port install ds9 seems to work correctly :

[macp2034:~] caux% sudo port uninstall ds9 ---> Deactivating ds9 @7.5_1+aqua ---> Cleaning ds9 ---> Uninstalling ds9 @7.5_1+aqua ---> Cleaning ds9 [macp2034:~] caux% sudo port install ds9 ---> Computing dependencies for ds9 ---> Fetching archive for ds9 ---> Attempting to fetch ds9-7.5_1+aqua.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from ​https://packages.macports.org/ds9 ---> Attempting to fetch ds9-7.5_1+aqua.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from ​https://packages.macports.org/ds9 ---> Installing ds9 @7.5_1+aqua ---> Activating ds9 @7.5_1+aqua ---> Cleaning ds9 ---> Updating database of binaries ---> Scanning binaries for linking errors ---> No broken files found. [macp2034:~] caux%

But is now in a new terminal I type ds9 or saoimage, I have :

[macp2034:~] caux% ds9 ds9: Command not found. [macp2034:~] caux%

Therefore, for me ds9 is not installed correctly, but if yes, please let me know how I can launch it ?

Many thanks

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Please use WikiFormatting.

To see the files installed by the port, check the output of port contents ds9.

The path /opt/local/var/macports/software/ds9/Applications/MacPorts is inside an internal directory of MacPorts and nothing should be installed there. Did you modify the applications_dir in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf in any way?

[manulcaux]

Hi,

I never modified /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf.

But when I launch the command sudo port install ds9 and it seemed to work as it didn't throw any errors (after you made the executable ?) , it obviously changed something in my /opt/local/var/macports/software/ds9/Applications/MacPorts directory as I have there a directory ds9 created on July 7 2017 at 11:12am.

Many thanks for helping me

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

The Priority field is for use by Macports team members only. In the future, please use WikiFormatting.

[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

What you want to do is go into the Finder, navigate to "Applications" -> "MacPorts", and double-click "SAOImage DS9". If you want a version that you can run from the command line, then you should install the X11 variant:

$ sudo port install ds9 +x11

[manulcaux]

Hi,

Many thanks, I uninstalled the ds9 version and sucessfully installed ds9 +x11.

The ticket can be closed

Thanks again !