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.

When this is available you will need to install matplotlib from source (​http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib) and have the following packages installed:

• cfitsio

• blas

• lapack

• python

• boost

• tkinter

• libf2c

The following packages are needed from the "dag" repository

• python-numarray

• ipython

From source

• rpfits-2.9

     tar zxvf rpfits-2.9.tar.gz; cd rpfits/linux
     make
     cp librpfits.a /usr/local/lib/
     cp ../code/{RPFITS.h,rpfits.inc} /usr/local/include
  

• casa_asap

     tar jxvf casa_asap.tar.bz2; cd casa_asap
     sh build.sh
  

  Depending on whether you use (t)csh

     source aipsinit.csh
  

  or bash

     . aipsinit.sh
  

• asap_src

     tar jxvf asap_src.tar.bz2; cd asap2.0
     make
  

  Check if the module works. If the following statement returns without a message, all is good!

     python -c "import _asap"
  

  Install it to the default location

     make install
  

• asap_data

     cd /usr/local/share/asap
     tar jxvf <download_directory>/asap_data.tar.bz2
  

Now you can test it.