Installing ASAP and dependencies from source

Note: For asap-2.2.3 you will need scons-1.2 or later

• You need scons, flex, bison, g++, g77/gfortran, cfitsio, boost, python to build ASAP. These should be available as system packages (e.g. rpm, deb etc.). You will also need the corresponding development packages (e.g. xyz-dev.deb or xyz-devel.rpm)
• You will also need ipython, matplotlib, numpy to run ASAP

• rpfits Download ​rpfits

     tar zxvf rpfits.tar.gz; cd rpfits/linux
     make install
  

• wcslib Download ​wcslib

     tar zxvf wcslib.tar.gz; cd wcslib
     make install
  

• casacore (aips++) Download ​casacore-0.4.1)

     tar jxvf casacore-0.4.1.tar.bz2; cd casacore-0.4.1
     ./batchbuild.py prefix=/usr/local install
  

  Patience...

• ASAP (You need to have subversion installed)

     svn co http://svn.atnf.csiro.au/asap/tags/asap2.3.0
     cd asap2.3.0
  

You need to have the scons package installed (see o/s specific notes)

   scons casacoreroot=/usr/local

Now it's probably best to get the asap data repository.

   export ASAPDATA=.
   ./bin/asap_update_data
   unset ASAPDATA

Install it to the default location:

   su
   scons mode=release casacoreroot=/usr/local install

• ASAP Data

     su
     asap_update_data
  

Now you can test it by executing:

   asap

This will install the asap startup script in $PREFIX/bin and the python code on $ASAPPY/asap. To run you private version of asap you will need to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to $ASAPPY/asap. To simplify your life it is recommended you edit $PREFIX/asap and add the lines (changed appropriately) near the beginning of the script:

  PYTHONPATH='/home/me/python'
  export PYTHONPATH

Binary release

To make a binary release to help out others with the same operating system, replace <identifier> with something identifying your platform, e.g. fc5 for fedora core 5, or fc5_x86_64 for the 64bit version of fc5 and run the following

scons  casacoreroot=/usr/local makedist=<identifier>

Then email the resulting tarball in the dist subdirectory to mailto:Malte.Marquarding@…