- recipe heasoft
NASA High Energy Astrophysics Software (HEAsoft)
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- Documentation:
- License:
Clear BSD License
- Recipe:
HEAsoft is a unified release of FTOOLS and XANADU software packages for high energy astrophysics data analysis, including tools like XSPEC.
After installation, users should initialize the HEAsoft environment with:
``` export HEADAS=$(ls -d "${CONDA_PREFIX}/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-libc"*/ | head -n 1) source ${HEADAS}/headas-init.sh export LHEAPERL=${CONDA_PREFIX}/bin/perl ```
This setup configures numerous environment variables required for HEAsoft, including: PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PFILES, PERL5LIB, PYTHONPATH, and various component-specific variables like PGPLOT_DIR, XANADU, and POW_LIBRARY.
Note that LHEAPERL needs to be manually set to point to your Conda environment's Perl interpreter after sourcing headas-init.sh.
For mission-specific functionality (e.g., Swift, NuSTAR, IXPE), additional environment setup may be needed. See the HEAsoft documentation for details.
**Warning for Xspec users**: The /spectral/modelData directory (~5.9GB) is excluded to reduce package size, rendering Xspec unusable without it. To enable Xspec: 1. Download the HEASoft source tarball for the same version as this package (6.35.1):
```bash wget https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/lheasoft/lheasoft6.35.1/heasoft-6.35.1src.tar.gz ``` Replace 6.35.1 with the package version (e.g., 6.35.1).
Extract: ```bash tar zxf heasoft-6.35.1src.tar.gz ```
Copy the modelData directory: ```bash mkdir -p $CONDA_PREFIX/spectral cp -r heasoft-6.35.1/Xspec/src/spectral/modelData $CONDA_PREFIX/spectral/ ```
- package heasoft¶
- versions:
6.35.1-0- depends astropy:
>=6.1.4- depends astropy-iers-data:
- depends curl:
>=8.13.0,<9.0a0- depends gsl:
>=2.7,<2.8.0a0- depends gsl:
>=2.7,<3.0a0- depends libgcc:
>=13- depends libgcc-ng:
>=15.1.0,<16.0a0- depends libgfortran:
- depends libgfortran-ng:
>=15.1.0,<16.0a0- depends libgfortran5:
>=13.3.0- depends libpng:
>=1.6.47,<1.7.0a0- depends libpng:
>=1.6.47,<2.0a0- depends libstdcxx:
>=13- depends libstdcxx-ng:
>=15.1.0,<16.0a0- depends libzlib:
>=1.3.1,<2.0a0- depends matplotlib-base:
>=3.9.2- depends ncurses:
>=6.5,<7.0a0- depends numpy:
>=1.21,<3- depends numpy:
>=2.2.6,<3.0a0- depends perl:
>=5.32.1- depends python:
>=3.13,<3.14.0a0- depends python_abi:
3.13.* *_cp313- depends readline:
>=8.2,<9.0a0- depends scipy:
>=1.14.1- depends xorg-libx11:
>=1.8.12,<2.0a0- depends xorg-libxext:
>=1.3.6,<2.0a0- depends xorg-libxt:
>=1.3.1,<2.0a0- depends xorg-xextproto:
>=7.3.0,<8.0a0- depends xorg-xproto:
>=7.0.31,<8.0a0- depends zlib:
>=1.3.1,<2.0a0- requirements:
- additional platforms:
Installation
You need a conda-compatible package manager (currently either micromamba, mamba, or conda) and the Bioconda channel already activated (see set-up-channels).
While any of above package managers is fine, it is currently recommended to use either micromamba or mamba (see here for installation instructions). We will show all commands using mamba below, but the arguments are the same for the two others.
Given that you already have a conda environment in which you want to have this package, install with:
mamba install heasoft and update with:: mamba update heasoft
To create a new environment, run:
mamba create --name myenvname heasoft
with
myenvnamebeing a reasonable name for the environment (see e.g. the mamba docs for details and further options).Alternatively, use the docker container:
docker pull quay.io/biocontainers/heasoft:<tag> (see `heasoft/tags`_ for valid values for ``<tag>``)
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