How do I run the Virtual Observatory tools provided with Scisoft?
Most of the VO tools in this version of Scisoft are written in Java and can be run using the Java web start facility. In this case the latest version of the tool will be downloaded from its originating site and cached locally. Tools in this category, and the command that should be typed to run them are: aladin-ws, vospec-ws, voplot-ws, splat-ws and plastic-ws. These tools are run from the local Scisoft installation in the usual way: virgo, stilts and specview. And finally TOPCAT can be either run locally (topcat) or using web start (topcat-ws). Q28: scisoft-gaia fails to upgrade to 7.2: “error: unpacking of archive failed on file” The reasons for this are not very clear to us but we have seen it; it seems something to do with a symlink in the old RPM being replaced by a file in the new RPM or vice versa, and the way that rpm unpacks the new RPM before it removes the old one (it has to do this in order that if something goes wrong it can roll back). The fix is to remove scisoft-gaia (yu
