PALFA viewer is in /data/psrdata/PALFA/viewers
as is our config file PALFA_config.py (subdir common_DB)
i installed several needed software pieces into /usr/share/astro and elsewhere
i installed freetds from /usr/share/astro
i downloaded to Desktop and installed tcl8.4.19 tcl8.5.3 according to its unix README
i downloaded to Desktop and installed tk8.5.3 a month later. is it incompat with above tcl? yes its readme says it is so I went back and installed new tcl8.5.3 as shown above.
i installed python 2.5.2 from desktop dnld, following directions. first i had to setenv LD_RUN_PATH /usr/local/lib in order that it could find _tkinter. the executable was placed into /usr/local/bin, whereas older ones are in /usr/bin. then i linked it to /usr/bin/python
i installed pymssql from /usr/share/astro to /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
i installed pmw from /usr/share/astro onto rigels /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages (see documentation via firefox at file:///usr/share/astro/Pmw.1.3.2/src/Pmw/Pmw_1_3/doc/starting.html )
i installed numpy-1.1.0 from desktop dnld.
i installed matplotlib-0.98.1 from desktop dnld. (directions are in file called “install” in distribution.) A routine’s name had been changed (I found this out in the file API_CHANGES in the distribution:
blend_xy_sep_transform(xtrans, ytrans)
was renamed
blended_transform_factory(xtrans, ytrans)
so I had to go to mywidgets.py in PALFA/viewers/common_DB/ and make this change.
I installed PIL (python imaging library) 1.1.6 from desktop dnld, creating Imaging-1.1.6
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so note it is not accessible from other hosts but this is the only one we can access cornell database from anyway.
Joel
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