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See [http://casa.nrao.edu/Primer/ the CASA Primer.] | See [http://casa.nrao.edu/Primer/ the CASA Primer.] | ||
== Installing CASA on Ubuntu == | |||
The following method worked for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). | |||
* Download the tarball appropriate for your Linux distribution. | |||
** [https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/casa/linux_distro/casapy-24.0.8115-001.tar.gz 32-bit Linux] | |||
** [https://svn.cv.nrao.edu/casa/linux_distro/casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b.tar.gz 64-bit Linux] | |||
* Install to /usr/local/bin/CASA (or substitute your own directory). | |||
<source lang="bash"> | |||
sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/CASA | |||
sudo mv casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b.tar.gz /usr/local/bin/CASA # substitute the appropriate tarball here | |||
cd /usr/local/bin/CASA | |||
sudo tar zxvf casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b.tar.gz | |||
</source> | |||
* Add the following environment variable to your .bashrc (or other appropriate shell startup script). | |||
<source lang="bash"> | |||
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/CASA/casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b | |||
</source> | |||
* Test it out! | |||
<source lang="bash"> | |||
source ~/.bashrc # or open a new terminal | |||
casapy | |||
</source> | |||
== Starting CASA == | == Starting CASA == | ||
Revision as of 08:03, 19 November 2009
Installing CASA
See the CASA Primer.
Installing CASA on Ubuntu
The following method worked for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).
- Download the tarball appropriate for your Linux distribution.
- Install to /usr/local/bin/CASA (or substitute your own directory).
sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/CASA
sudo mv casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b.tar.gz /usr/local/bin/CASA # substitute the appropriate tarball here
cd /usr/local/bin/CASA
sudo tar zxvf casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b.tar.gz
- Add the following environment variable to your .bashrc (or other appropriate shell startup script).
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/CASA/casapy-24.0.8115-001-64b
- Test it out!
source ~/.bashrc # or open a new terminal
casapy
Starting CASA
Once installed, you can start CASA using the command "casapy"
## From a UNIX shell prompt
casapy
Note that, by convention, UNIX-level commands will be commented out so to facilitate parsing these pages into CASA scripts.
Listing Available Commands and Tools
# From within CASA
tasklist()
A more exhaustive summary can be obtained as follows.
taskhelp
Some commands are hidden away as methods under various objects. For example, to take a look at options under the imager object
help im
Notice that the method mem appears here, under help, but not under tasklist.
Getting Help on a Command
Let's get some exhaustive help on clean.
# From within CASA
help clean
This method is OK, and perhaps the following method is better.
# From within CASA
pdoc clean
Additional Tips
- When you started CASA, it gave you a lot of useful information. But now you've been mucking around for a while, and that info is lost. How do you get it back? Just rerun the startup screen.
startup
--Jgallimo 14:42, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
