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Following up on my earlier post on installing IRAF on Ubuntu Edgy, here's a walkthrough for installing PyRAF, a Python shell for IRAF. As part of this we'll have to install STSDAS and TABLES, two popular IRAF packages from STSCI.

A major part of my final year project depends on using IRAF, the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility from NOAO. Although it's installed on the university's UNIX Service, the servers it's on are not particularly fast and have quite a few users, so the interactive bits like DS9 are barely usable over SSH X11 forwarding. Anyway, I thought I'd install it on my own machine to make things easier.