Casarest

This is the casarest package, the remainder of the AIPS++ libraries. It consists of the libraries:

• msvis
• calibration
• synthesis
• flagging
• simulators
• ionosphere

The prorgram lwimager (part of synthesis) is the main deliverable.

Installation

Obtaining the source

The casarest source code is maintained on github.

You can obtain it using:

$ git clone https://github.com/casacore/casarest

Requirements

To compile casarest you need to meet the following requirements:

• cmake
• g++
• casacore (2.0 or later)
• boost
• wcslib
• cfitsio
• fortran
• hdf5 (optional)

On Debian / Ubuntu you can install these with:

$ sudo apt-get install cmake libcasacore2-dev libboost-dev wcslib-dev \
   libcfitsio3-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev gfortran \
   g++

And the optional dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev

Compilation

In the casacore source folder run:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make 
make install

Ubuntu 14.04 packages

If you run Ubuntu 14.04 you can use precompiled binary packages

https://launchpad.net/~radio-astro/+archive/ubuntu/main

installation commands:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:radio-astro/main
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install casarest

Problems & bugs

If you have any issues compiling or using casacore, please open an issue on the issue tracker on github.

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