Help in installing HEASOFT

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please help in installing HEASOFT software of nasa

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heasoft is in the AUR (Arch User Repository).

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i have downloaded HEASoft from nasa website . how can i build and install it?

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Hi @raman,

heasoft is available in the AUR, like @Yochanan said.

I just checked, you can too here, and it seeems to be fetching the sources frrom the NASA website, as well. So it does the exact same as if you were to builld it manually, it’s just much easier.

So I recommend doing it that way, using the command from the terminal:

pamac build heasoft

If yoou still insist on dooing it manually, see the link to the PKGBUILD I provided earlier in the post.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

It would be pamac build heasoft

sudo is not required for building from the AUR, it asks for authentication when required.

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Thanks!

I don’t know why, but I keep messing it up, even after all this time, it still happens.

Edit:
Fixed it, thanks!

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   ~  sudo pacman -S fortran  :heavy_check_mark:
[sudo] password for raman:
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: File exists
if you’re sure a package manager is not already
running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
   ~  sudo pacman -S gcc  1 ✘  4s 
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: File exists
if you’re sure a package manager is not already
running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
   ~   1 ✘

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i have allready downloaded Heasoft from nasa website, but i am not able to build it and install