Installation ¶

Prerequisities ¶

The program requires the following general packages to run: Numpy , Matplotlib , Scipy and Astropy . The following LIGO-related packages are also required for full functionality: GWpy , PyCBC , Glue , LAL , LALburst and LALsimulation .

GWpy and PyCBC ¶

Both GWpy and PyCBC pacakges can easily be installed via the pip package manager as follows:

         sudo pip install gwpy
sudo pip install pycbc

LALsuite repository ¶

Github ¶

The remaining of the LIGO-related packages are part of the LALsuite which can be installed straightforwardly from the LALsuite Github repository as follows:

Clone the repository on your computer:

           git clone https://github.com/lscsoft/lalsuite

          

Configure and compile the entire software suite:
```
./00boot
./configure --enable-swig-python --prefix=/where/to/install
make -j install
```
Tip

In case the configure step doesn’t work, e.g. ./configure failed for lalframe error message, the installation of the following tools could fix it (shared by Xiang Zhang using Linux apt-get package manager):
1. Install the FFTW library : sudo apt-get install fftw*
2. Install the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) : sudo apt-get install gsl*
3. Download and install the Common Data Frame Format Library
4. Install the SWIG software development tool : sudo apt-get install swig
5. Download and install the metaio library
6. Install the libXML2 XML C parser and toolkit : sudo apt-get install libxml2*
7. Clone and install the GLib application
8. Install the HDF5 library : sudo apt-get install libhdf5*

Pick up the environment by adding the following to your .profile:

           source /where/to/install/etc/lal-user-env.sh
source /where/to/install/etc/lalapps-user-env.sh

Both glue and pylal packages can then be installed and brought into the environment:

           cd glue/
python setup.py install --prefix=/where/to/install/
source /where/to/install/etc/glue-user-env.sh

cd pylal/
python setup.py install --prefix=/where/to/install/
source /where/to/install/etc/pylal-user-env.sh

          

Note that the sourcing has to take place in that order and should be done each time the user wants to obtain the environment.

MacPorts ¶

Danger

The LALsuite released code might be mangled or incomplete. Not recommend to install.

If a Mac user still decides to install the LALsuite via Macports, this can be done pretty easily. Detailed information can be found on this page . The MacPorts package manager needs to be installed on your machine. The following commands should suffice to install the LALsuite package on your machine:

         sudo port install lscsoft-deps
sudo port install glue
sudo port install lalapps

        

The first command will install all the dependencies needed for the LIGO software to be installed. The following 2 commands will install the actual packages.

apt-get ¶

Danger

The LALsuite released code might be mangled or incomplete. Not recommend to install.

Since the LIGO software is not a default package in the apt package manager system on Debian machine, additional steps will be needed. The following is extracted from the LALSuite Installation page . The first step is to add the following links to the source list located at /etc/apt/sources.list :

         deb [arch=amd64] http://software.ligo.org/lscsoft/debian jessie contrib
deb-src [arch=amd64] http://software.ligo.org/lscsoft/debian jessie contrib

Note that the [arch=amd64] is needed to fix the architecture problem in case it tries to install i386 version on 64-bit Debian. Once the sources have been added, you must first install all the dependencies as follows:

         apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf libtool devscripts

        

The LIGO software can finally be installed using the following command:

         apt-get install lscsoft-all

        

GDAS installation ¶

The GNOME Data Analysis Software can be installed very easily using the pip package manager as follows:

         sudo pip install gdas

        

This method allows for easy uninstallation. You can also simply download the tarball from the PyPI webpage , unpack it and then do:

         sudo python setup.py install

        

If you wish to install a specific version of the software, you can either download the tarball version from this page or type the following:

         sudo pip install gdas==0.4.0

        