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Choose yes when prompted to install Anaconda (the recommended approach). Choose yes when prompted to install git**. These packages will not interfere with your system installed versions. This step will download about 1 GB of files to your machine and usually takes less than 15 minutes.
** Only choose 'yes' to install git if your current version is prior to git 1.7 or you have curl-devel installed on your system.
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This will install all packages currently in the catalogs simulations framework (CatSim) and metrics analysis framework and all dependencies. Currently The installation should take on the order of 2 hours, with a final required installation size of 10GB.
Currently the complete list of installed packages is:
- base – LSST import utilities
- boost– Third party C++ package
- cfitsio– FITSIO I/O library
- daf_base – LSST data access framework
- doxygen– Documentation suite
- freetds– OpenSource implementation for Tabular Data Streams (needed by pymssql)
- healpy– Python bindings for HealPix
- palpy– Python binidings for PAL (Positional Astronomy Library)
- pex_config – LSST configuration package
- pex_exceptions – LSST exception handling package.
- pex_policy – Another LSST configuration package
- pyephem– Ephemeris generation code
- pyfits– Python bindings for interacting with FITS files
- pykg_config– Pure python implementation of pkg_config needed to install healpy on Mac OSX
- pymssql– Python bindings for talking to MS-SqlServer databases (needed to access UW base catalogs)
- scons– Software construction tool
- sconsUtils – LSST utilities for scons
- sims_catalogs_generation – Code for querying databases for catalog data
- sims_catalogs_measures – Code for constructing observed catalogs
- sims_catUtils – Package containing example code and definitions of base catalogs hosted at UW.
- sims_photUtils – Utilities for calculating photometry including variability
- sims_coordUtils – Utilities for calculating coordinate corrections (proper motion, parallax, refraction, etc.)
- sims_dustmaps – SFD dust maps
- sims_maf – Metrics Analysis Framework
- sims_sed_library – Library of SED data for simulated catalogs
- swig– Library for auto-generating python bindings for C++ code
- throughputs – Nominal throughput curves for SDSS and LSST systems
- utils – LSST utilities package
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