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:

pip install -v pyds9plugin

or

python3 setup.py install

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.