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.
The casarest source code is maintained on github.
You can obtain it using:
$ git clone https://github.com/casacore/casarest
To compile casarest you need to meet the following requirements:
- cmake
- casacore (2.0 or later)
- boost
- wcslib
- cfitsio
- fortran
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
In the casacore source folder run:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install
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
If you have any issues compiling or using casacore, please open an issue on the issue tracker on github.
