Installation of pythonProp under Debian

Example Area Calculation

In this article I describe how to install pythonProp under Debian (squeeze) linux.

Prerequisites

Installing Voacapl

Follow the instructions given in this article.

Preparing Python

In the first step we prepare the build environment:

apt-get install libgeos-dev 

apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib

Building Basemap

Now we can download and install the basemap toolkit - it is not included in Debian (squeeze):

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-toolkits/basemap-1.0.3/basemap-1.0.3.tar.gz

tar xzf basemap-1.0.3.tar.gz

cd basemap-1.0.3

sudo python setup.py sdist

 

Building Matplotlib 

As the matplotlib version supplied with Debian (squeeze) does not work, we download and install the matplotlib manually: 

 

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0/matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz

tar xzf matplotlib-1.0.0.tar.gz 

cd matplotlib-1.0.0/

python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install

 

Installing pythonProp

Now we can install pythonProp manually:

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pythonprop/pythonprop-0.10.tar.gz

tar xzf pythonprop-0.10.tar.gz cd pythonprop-0.10 autoreconf ./configure sudo make install

To see whether everything is ok, run

 

voacapgui

 

References

  1. pythonProp (HZ1JW)