GNU Astronomy Utilities manual

3.3 Installing GNU Astronomy Utilities

This section is basically a longer explanation to the sequence of commands given in Quick start. If you want to have all the programs of Gnuastro installed in your system, you don’t want to change the executable names during or after installation, you have root access to install the programs in a system wide directory, the Letter paper size of the print manual is fine for you or as a summary you don’t feel like going into the details when everything is working seamlessly, you can safely skip this section. If you have any of the above problems or you want to understand the details for a better control over your build and install, read along.

In the following it is assumed that you have downloaded the compressed source file, gnuastro-0.1.tar.gz, to the DOWLD (short for download) directory, replace this name with the directory that you want to run the installation in. Note that after installation, if you don’t plan to re-install you no longer need this file or the uncompressed directory, so you can safely delete both. The first three steps in Quick start need no extra explanation. Once you uncompress the source file the directory DOWLD/gnuastro-0.1 will be created.

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GNU Astronomy Utilities manual, November 2015.