Installation
pyds9plugin is governed by the CeCILL-B license under French law and
abides by the rules of free software distribution. The package has been
released on https://pypi.org
and is being reviewed to become an astropy affiliated
packages. The source code is
available on GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/vpicouet/pyds9plugin.git
You should create an environment with python 3.8:
conda create --name py38 python=3.8
and then activate it
conda activate py38
People can contribute to the code via GitHub and fill issues with
Github's issue tracker. pyds9plugin works with DS9 with a version
equal to or higher than 8.2. The extension can be installed via the
terminal:
git clone https://github.com/vpicouet/pyds9plugin.git
cd pyds9plugin
pip install -e .
The package can also be installed inside a virtual
environment.
The package will be accessible via DS9Utils keyword in the terminal.
To load the analysis file in DS9 run:
DS9Utils LoadDS9QuickLookPlugin
Warning
If the file can not be added automatically, instructions will appear to add it manually. The given path returned by the previous command will just need to be added to DS9 preference analysis section
Prerequisites and dependence: pyds9plugin runs under Python
versions \(>3.5\). Note that as a minimum, any user will need to have at
least installed pyds9,
NumPy, scipy,
astropy,
argparse,
pyvista, tqdm,
datetime,
pandas,
PyQt5,
matplotlib and
dataphile.
For full functionality the
astromatic suite (Swarp, Stiff and PSFex) is also needed.
Warning
Pyds9 package is not available on windows.