Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Wisdom/Workstation

Timestamp:

08/13/10 13:49:49 (16 years ago)

Author:

lia@…

Comment:

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Wisdom/Workstation

@@ -184 +184 @@
 Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
 
-August 13 - I also installed an astronomical library (Similar to the standard IDL Astronomy library) from http://www.scipy.org/AstroLib/
+=== Astrolib for Python ===
+
+I also installed an astronomical library (Similar to the standard IDL Astronomy library) from http://www.scipy.org/AstroLib/
 
 In my home folder:
@@ -199 +201 @@
 Then I did what is shown above.
 
+Next I had to install the different packages.  Do the following:
+{{{
+cd ~/astrolib/trunk/asciidata
+sudo python setup.py install
+cd ~/astrolib/trunk/asciitable
+sudo python setup.py install
+}}}
+When I tried to do the same with coords folder, I kept getting a "gcc compile error" and a lot of errors associated with Python modules I didn't recognize.  I found out that this is because you need the developer library installed.  I did the following to get things going:
+{{{
+sudo apt-get install python2.6-dev
+cd ~/astrolib/trunk/coords
+sudo python setup.py install
+}}}
+It installed just fine!