The LSST Science Pipelines are part of LSST's EUPS package stack. This means that the Science Pipelines software is actually a collection of packages that you install and set up together. By specifying different top-level packages to the eups distrib install <newinstall-install> and setup <setup> commands, you can control the size of the software installation or add new capabilities.
This page describes the common top-level packages that make up the LSST Science Pipelines and related EUPS stacks.
lsst_apps provides the core packages that LSST will use in operations.
Example installation (more info <newinstall-install>):
eups distrib install lsst_apps -t <tag>
setup lsst_appslsst_distrib provides all the packages from lsst_apps along with these additional ones:
- ctrl_execute
- ctrl_platform_lsstvc
- datarel
- meas_extensions_convolved
- meas_extensions_shapeHSM
- meas_extensions_photometryKron
- pipe_drivers
- lsst_obs
- jointcal
- verify
Example installation (more info <newinstall-install>):
eups distrib install lsst_distrib -t <tag>
setup lsst_distrib