Installing ASAP on Debian Sarge

Debian Sarge is the main testing and development system for ASAP. It should be relatively easy to get the binary to work.

Installing matlotlib

There is no matplotlib package available for Debian Sarge. Either install matplotlib from source or use the provided matplotlib package http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/matplotlib/mpl_0.87.3_sarge.tar.bz2.

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    cd /; tar jxf <download_dir>/mpl_0.87.3_sarge.tar.bz2

ASAP package requirements

Before the asap binary can be installed you must have the following packages installed

• python2.3 python2.3-ipython ipython-common python2.3-numarray libboost-python1.32.0 python-numarray-ext python2.3-tk libg2c0 cfitsio2 libstdc++5

If you are want to install asap from source you also need

• scons lapack-dev blas-dev g++ libg2c0-dev libboost-dev