=============================================================== aflak - Advanced Framework for Learning Astrophysical Knowledge

Project moved and currently undergoing a complete rewrite at https://github.com/aflak-vis/aflak

Environment

Support Python3.5+.

You can install aflak using any of the following methods.

This is the recommended way of installing aflak as a user. Please make sure to install aflak for python 3.x. It will not work on python 2.x.

.. code :: bash

pip install aflak  # pip should point to python3!
pip3 install aflak # Use `pip3' if you are on Debian or Ubuntu

Depending on your python install, you should be able to run aflak form the command line with any of these commands

.. code :: bash

aflak            # This should work in most environment
python -m aflak  # `python' should be the python 3.x interpreter!
python3 -m aflak

Only Debian Stretch and Ubuntu 17.10 are supported for now.

Download the .deb file of the latest release from https://github.com/malikolivier/aflak/releases

Install it with:

.. code :: bash

sudo dpkg -i aflak-X.X.X-release.deb
# If dependencies are missing, you should then run:
sudo apt-get install -f

Remove it with:

.. code :: bash

sudo apt-get remove aflak

.. code :: bash

git clone https://github.com/malikolivier/aflak
cd aflak
virtualenv -p python3 venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
./run

aflak my-fits-file.fits

The provided FITS file is required to have the following extensions:

After some fiddling you should be able to get a window like below:

.. figure:: images/2017-11-13-screenshot.jpg?raw=true :alt: Screen capture of the running GUI application

The Makefile contains a few recipes to get sample fits files. Run make as below:

make data/manga-7443-12703-LINCUBE.fits

fold -w 80 foo.fits | less