Installation

To use this package, the SAOImage/DS9 program and the XPA dynamic library and headers must be installed on your computer. If this is not the case, they are available for different operating systems. For example, on Debian or Ubuntu-like Linux system, you can call apt (or apt-get on older systems) from the command line:

sudo apt install saods9 libxpa-dev

SAOImageDS9 can be can be installed by Julia's package manager. In the Julia REPL, press ] to drop into package mode, then run

pkg> add SAOImageDS9

Another possibility from Julia's REPL or in a Julia script:

using Pkg
Pkg.add("SAOImageDS9")
# or
Pkg.add(PackageSpec(name="SAOImageDS9", rev="master"))

See XPA.jl site for instructions about how to install this package if the installation of SAOImageDS9 fails to properly install this required package.

To upgrade the SAOImageDS9 package:

using Pkg
Pkg.update("SAOImageDS9")

There is nothing to build.