Installation

Downloading source code

You can clone this repository, or download the latest .tar.gz distribution.

1 Libraries

1.1 Pre-requisites

Libraries required :

• gcc
• openMP
• fitsio
• fftw (single and double precision), for performing Fourier Transforms
• gsl
• readline, for reading the command line input
• tmux
• bash dialog, version 1.2 minimum
• flex, for parsing the command line input
• bison, to interpret the command line input
• gsl, for math functions and tools

Install above libraries (centOS):

    sudo yum install readline-devel flex bison-devel fftw3-devel gsl-devel

Install above libraries (Ubuntu):

    sudo apt-get install libcfitsio3 libcfitsio3-dev libreadline6-dev libncurses5-dev libfftw3-dev libgsl0-dev flex bison

1.2 FITSIO install

For reading and writing FITS image files

• Visit https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsio.html and download the file Unix .tar file cfitsio3410.tar.gz
• Extract it , README , install it There is the fitsio.h in it. Move it to usr :

      ./configure --prefix=/usr
      make 
      sudo make install 
  

1.3 GPU acceleration (optional, but highly recommended)

• install NVIDIA driver
• install CUDA
• install MAGMA, version 2.x

1.4 Shared Memory Image Stream Viewer

Two options:

• shared memory image viewer (shmimview or similar)
• qt-based shmimviewqt

2 Compilation from git clone (recommended for developers)

2.1 Additional libraries

2.1.1 CentOS

Install Development tools, use the command bellow. This will search the yum repositories, and install the tools from the closest repo.

    sudo yum groupinstall "Development tools"

2.1.2 Ubuntu

    sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool git

2.2 Compilation

The source code follows the standard GNU build process:

    autoreconf -vif
    ./configure
    make
    make install

3 Compilation from tarball

Unpack

    gunzip <package>.tar.gz
    tar -xvf <package>.tar

The source code follows the standard GNU build process:

    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install