Thank you for the package. I'm suggesting to improve the documentation in regards to the installation. On a fresh python setup (altinstall), I struggled a bit (not much) to get this going... maybe this info can be of any help.
Distribution: Fedora 24 (pretty old, but this will probably apply to more recent ones)
Python: 3.7 (altinstall)
pip3.7 install pyds9 would fail with:
gcc -c -I. -g -O2 -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H xtloop.c
xtloop.c:9:27: fatal error: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such file or directory
#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
^
compilation terminated.
Makefile:405: recipe for target 'xtloop.o' failed
make: *** [xtloop.o] Error 1
creating build
creating build/lib
copying pyds9.py -> build/lib
copying xpa.py -> build/lib
running install_lib
running install_data
Installing data files to /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/
error: can't copy 'xpa/libxpa.so': doesn't exist or not a regular file
I've installed xpa separately, but I think what was missing was:
After this the library installed fine. I know python/pip has nothing to do with distribution package managers, but maybe this info could fit somewhere in the documentation or something.
Hi fellows,
Thank you for the package. I'm suggesting to improve the documentation in regards to the installation. On a fresh python setup (altinstall), I struggled a bit (not much) to get this going... maybe this info can be of any help.
Distribution: Fedora 24 (pretty old, but this will probably apply to more recent ones) Python: 3.7 (altinstall)
pip3.7 install pyds9 would fail with:
I've installed xpa separately, but I think what was missing was:
After this the library installed fine. I know python/pip has nothing to do with distribution package managers, but maybe this info could fit somewhere in the documentation or something.
Hope this helps. -NT