This is for installing the latest and greatest asap (trunk)

{{{
yum install cfitsio libstdc++ compat-libf2c-32 boost python-matplotlib-tk python-numarray lapack blas

wget http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/asap2.1a_fc5.tar.bz2

as root 

cd / && tar jxf <where_I_downloaded_it_to>/asap2.1a_fc5.tar.bz2

}}}