Post-Installation Setup for CASA Macintosh Intel
Your Shell Environment
CASA uses an enhanced Python environment (an open-source shell called iPython) for its primary user interface.
You use this iPython shell from a Terminal or X11 window to set up data-processing tasks.
Anyway, you need to let your shell environment know about the CASA setup. The easiest way to do this is to
add a line to your shell initialization script:
source /opt/casa/casainit.sh
(or
source /opt/casa/casainit.csh
if you use tcsh)
I added this line to my
$HOME/.profile
script, so that every Terminal window that I open calls this initialization script.
Running CASA for the First Time
To start CASA, first source the
/opt/casa/casainit.sh
script as described above, then issue the
casapy command in a Terminal window.
The first time you run casapy, it will configure the iPython environment. You may see warning messages about fonts. I think these are generally safe to ignore. Once that is done, you should see something like
**********************************************************************
Welcome to IPython. I will try to create a personal configuration directory
where you can customize many aspects of IPython's functionality in:
/Users/bwaters/.ipython
Successful installation!
Please press <RETURN> to start IPython.
**********************************************************************
And you can press the
return
key to get into the casapy shell.
Release Notes
ASAP has been incorporated into CASA for this release.
See the CASA page for more information: CASA
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BoydWaters - 05 Feb 2007