Installing with Ureka

Instuctions for installing with Ureka

1. Install qt either with your favorite package manager or via the Qt stie). If you download from the Qt site, there are a lot of extra add-ons that they have you download (almost 9GB!) and most of these are not needed so the download can be stripped down to the bare essentials. The one other issue is that the installation will put qmake into a path in the Qt directory and not in a user path. The only additional step will be to add that version of qmake somewhere onto your path so that it can be accessed during the PyQt4 install. The Qt installs qmake under Qt/[version]/clang_64/bin/.

2. Start a Ureka terminal (or if you have made Ureka your system python, then start any terminal)

3. Install pyqt

• install sip

  • download sip

  • unpack the directory

  • change directory into the sip package and run the following:

      python configure.py
      make
      sudo make install
    

• install pyqt4

  • download pyqt4

  • unpack the directory

  • change directory into the pyqt4 package and run the following:

      python configure.py
      make
      sudo make install
    

4. Install via pip the following packages:

   pip install astropy
   pip install ccdproc 
   pip install pyspectrograph
   pip install aplpy
   pip install pyephem 
   

5. Follow the instructions for installing pysalt. We highly recommend the additional step of creating an iraf directory in your home directory, and then running mkiraf in that directory to create the login.cl (or copy an already existing login.cl into that directory).