Hi Stephen,

You should be able to use the unmodified version of rockstar. Matt's modifications allow you to add a halo 'field' per se that can compute a halo quantities that Rockstar doesn't normally compute. I haven't used this version, and the unmodified Rockstar works fine for me thus far. 

However, I don't think we ever added a Rockstar installation option to the install script, despite the docs text. Does Rockstar without modification work for you?

chris

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Stephen Skory <s@skory.us> wrote:
Hi all,

I am trying to explore the rockstar halo finder within yt following
the text Chris Moody added to the docs:

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt-doc/src/eb3c3f1f7552/source/analysis_modules/running_halofinder.rst

The instructions include downloading a patched version of rockstar
from this link:

https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/rockstar

which gives me a "permission denied" message. I've poked around in yt,
and I don't think that the rockstar code is replicated in there. Are
the instructions wrong, or are the permissions incorrect on Matt's BB
repo?

I also noticed that in the rockstar documentation, it says "The yt
installation allows the option to install and configure Rockstar
appropriately" - but I can't find anything about rockstar in
install_script.sh. Am I missing something?

Thanks for the help!

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