Installing ASAP on Fedora

A binary version of ASAP 2.0, compiled on Fedora Core 3 is ​available. This may work on newer versions of Fedora - please give feedback.

Alternatively you can install from source.

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

The following packages are required for a install binary (and source) install. Additional packages for source install are also required (below):

  blas lapack python boost libf2c tk tcl tkinter

The following packages are needed from the "dag" repository

  python-numarray ipython

The following packages are needed from the "extras" repository

  cfitsio

The following are needed for matplotlib

  freetype libpng zlib xorg-x11-libs

To install asap from source the following additional packages are needed

  scons

To install matplotlib from source these packages are needed

  tk-devel tcl-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel

The following packages may or may not be needed (probably not, please give feedback!)

  gnome-libs-devel gtk2-devel gtk+-devel pygtk2 glib-devel pygtk2-devel

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

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

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$b
asearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fed
ora-Extras