Installing ASAP on Ubuntu (dapper)

ASAP package requirements

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

libg2c0 libgcc1 python2.4 refblas3 libstdc++6 libboost-python1.33.1 libc6-i686 libcfitsio2 lapack3 python-numarray python-numarray-ext python-setuptools python-tk python-gtk2

The version of Matplotlib in ubuntu is outdated. You can use a more recent version by installing it from a python egg. http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.87.3-py2.4-linux-i686.egg

sudo easy_install matplotlib-0.87.3-py2.4-linux-i686.egg