Installation procedure

Note that only intel based Macs are supported at this stage.

python 2.6 is required

1) python -

         curl -O http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5-macosx10.3-2010-03-24.dmg

the open disk image and install. In a terminal run python -V , which should return Python 2.6.5 . If not log out and log back in.

All these will probably work with the latest released version of those packages as well.

2) setuptools -

         curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py && sudo python ez_setup.py

3) asap

Get the latest release:

curl -O ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/current/asap-3.0.0-osx-10.5-i386-python2.6.tar.bz2

Unpack and follow the instructions in the README file

tar jxf asap-3.0.0-osx-10.5-i386-python2.6.tar.bz2
cd asap-3.0.0-osx-10.5-i386-python2.6
less README