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== The Basic Idea == | == The Basic Idea == | ||
The process of installing a third party package usually has two steps: | |||
* Building the package. | |||
* Making sure the package is in a path visible inside CASA so that it can be imported. | |||
=== Your init.py File === | |||
== On the Macintosh == | == On the Macintosh == | ||
Revision as of 17:22, 13 September 2013
CASA ships with a few third part packages (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib). It can be very useful to upgrade these or add additional packages. The method to do this can vary from package to package and OS to OS, but many of these packages use the same distutils approach and we can summarize a general path.
The Basic Idea
The process of installing a third party package usually has two steps:
- Building the package.
- Making sure the package is in a path visible inside CASA so that it can be imported.
Your init.py File
On the Macintosh
You are in huge luck. Most astronomers can administrate their own Mac and the location of CASA is standardized from Mac to Mac. This allowed Tom Robitaille to write a simple script that makes installing third party packages extremely simple. The script lives here:
https://github.com/astrofrog/casa-python
and it gives you access
As noted in the docs, this script assumes that CASA is still using Python 2.6. That will need to be upgraded.
Complications
You knew it wasn't always going to be that easy. Some of these packages, specifically the ultra-important SciPy, require a fortran compiler and Mac OS doesn't (at least at the moment) ship with one.
