= Installing ASAP on Fedora =

A binary version of ASAP 2.1, compiled on Fedora Core 3 is [ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/current/asap-2.1.0_fc3.tar.bz2 available]. This may work on newer versions of Fedora - please give feedback.

Alternatively you can install from [wiki:ASAPSourceInstall 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 gcc-c++
}}}

To install matplotlib from source these packages are needed

{{{
  tk-devel tcl-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel
}}}

The following packages should not be needed, unless you forgot to disable some of the matplotlib backends. 
{{{ 
  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
}}}