Installing Developer CASA
Installing CASA from a users point of view is trivial. Install the correct binary tar ball, add the correct bin/ directory to your $PATH, and type casapy. At UMD we use astromake, so a command like astroload casa will probably do the job. However, the current user release does not (currently) enable you to develop applications. For this a developer release must be installed, from source.
As of this writing (Feb 2009) the original CASA is being split into casacore and the non-code (code) trees, and I will only describe that new setup.
There are a number of packages that casacore (and in particular casa) needs in order to compile. Since some of them collide or are not recent enough with what you have on your linux distro, it is best to install them in a separate /opt/casa/{bin,lib,include} type of tree. Most open source packages will then be installed as follows:
./configure --prefix=/opt/casa make make install
or for python plugins (using casa's version of python) the typical command will be
python setup.py install
some Java based tools (e.g. ccmtools) are a little different.
Here are some links to help on installing casa/casacore
Some packages you will have to get via the CASA repository. Here are some examples:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.4/Python-2.5.4.tgz https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/casa/devel/ipython-0.9.1.bzr.r1152.tar.gz https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/casa/devel/modified-ant-contrib.tar.gz
casacore
The code is under SVN control. There are two versions, and two ways to install. First pick the code, depending if you want the stable version:
svn co https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/svn/casa/v2/stable/casacore
or the active version:
svn co https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/svn/casa/casacore/alma-evla/
Method-1 uses a GNUMakefile approach, recently developed by Darrell.
- edit GNUmakefile and set DESTDIR to the place you want the libraries & includes to end up (defaults to ./build/). The only oddity to make sure is if -I/usr/include/cfitsio is a correct directory for the CFITSIO package.
- run gmake setup
- run gmake
this last process will take a while. Took 45 mins. on my 2GB 2GHz Core2Duo laptop.
Method-2 uses a python based tool called scons. This is the original version, developed by Malte/Ger.
Typical dependencies:
- lapack
- blas
- cfitsio
casa (non-core or code)
Same deal, SVN, and two versions to download. Pick the stable version:
svn co https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/svn/casa/v2/stable/code
or active version:
svn co https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/svn/casa/v2/active/code/
