Installing ASAP on Fedora

The supplied asap binary for does not work on Fedora Core 3 (and is unlikely to run on other flavors of Fedora). A Fedora binary version is being worked on. In the meantime you will need to install from source.

You will need to also install matplotlib from source (​http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib).

The following packages are required for a full source install (including matplotlib).

• cfitsio

• blas

• lapack

• python

• boost

• libf2c

• tk

• tcl

• tk-devel

• tcl-devel

• tkinter

• gtk2-devel

• gtk+-devel

• pygtk2

• glib-devel

• pygtk2-devel

• gnome-lib-devel

• pygtk2-libglade

• zlib

• zlib-devel

• libpng

• libpng-devel

• freetype

• freetype-devel

• freetype-utils

The following packages are needed from the "dag" repository

• python-numarray

• ipython

To access the dag repository create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called dag.repo and put the following text in it.

[dag]
name=DAG
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0