Re: problems reading fits file

[Ben Abbott]

On May 6, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Poulette Poulette wrote:

> De : Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> À : Poulette Poulette <address@hidden> 
> Cc : "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
> Envoyé le : Lundi 6 mai 2013 15h12
> Objet : Re: problems reading fits file
> 
> On May 6, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Poulette Poulette wrote:
> 
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I am a new octave's user.
> > I have a macbook pro with Mountain Lion (osX 10.8.3). I installed the 
> > octave-devel +atlas+docs through macports (I already have Xcode, Xquartz, 
> > etc...).
> > The read_fits_image function doesn't work. 
> > I tried to install the fits package but still doesn't work… 
> > 
> > Someone could explain me how to install the fits package correctly ?
> > 
> > Thank you very much.
> 
> Macports does not yet have a port for the fits package.
> 
> I've  not tried to install the fits package myself, but I noticed that it 
> requires libcfitsio.  Did you install the macports "cfitsio" package before 
> trying to install the fits package?
> 
>     sudo port install cfitsio
> 
> Ben
> 
> Dear Ben, 
> 
> I tried to install the fits package from http://octave.sourceforge.net/fits/
> I suppose there are some PATH problems but don't know the way to solve them.
> I have libcfitsio well installed, I often use it.
> 
> Thanks for your message.

Where is libcfitsio installed?

Can you tell us exactly what you did to install fits?  Did you install using 
the commands below, or did you do something else?

        pkg install -forge fits
        pkg load fits

Bne