= 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 =

 * [http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/rpfits/rpfits-2.9.tar.gz 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
}}}

 * [http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/casa_asap.tar.bz2 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
}}}

 * [http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/asap_src.tar.bz2 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
}}}
 * [http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/asap_data.tar.bz2 asap_data]
{{{
   cd /usr/local/share/asap
   tar jxvf <download_directory>/asap_data.tar.bz2
}}}
Now you can test it.