GASGANO

What is GASGANO ?

Gasgano is a Data File Organiser developed and maintained by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to help its user community to manage and organise in a systematic way the astronomical data observed and produced by all VLT compliant telescopes, i.e. by telescopes which are being operated through Observation Blocks. The tool also supports FITS files which are not generated by those telescopes but with a limited number of functionality. For further information, please, refer to the latest Gasgano User's Manual.

GASGANO latest public version:

The latest public version of GASGANO is V1.5.1.

GASGANO System Requirements

GASGANO is written in Java and should run on all major Unix platforms, but is officially supported only for:

HP-UX 11.0
SunOS 5.6
Linux RedHat 7.1

The system is supposed to be pretty resource-intensive: see details of memory and CPU usage in Appendix A of the Gasgano User's Manual.

Installing and running GASGANO V1.5.1

To install GASGANO V1.5.1 you will need to retrieve the distribution kits for your architecture, unpack and install them, and start the gasgano executable.

Note

In order to retrieve the distribution kits, you may need to configure your Web browser so that it knows how to deal with the files we distribute -- gzipped tar files (.tar.gz filename extension; Unix, Linux).

If you click on one of the links below, your browser should display a file selection panel; if you end up instead with a page full of strange characters, you definitely need to configure your browser.

Alternatively, try clicking on the link while holding the Shift key down.

Change directory to where you want to install GASGANO V1.5.1 -- in the following, we'll call this directory the installation directory.
Retrieve the Unix distribution kit for V1.5.1,
```
   gasgano-1.5.1-<OS>.tar.gz
```
into the installation directory, where <OS> corresponds to the Operating System and release you need:
Run the following sequence of commands:
gunzip -c gasgano-1.5.1-<OS>.tar.gz | tar xovf - cd gasgano-1.5.1 make

Please, notice that the make command copies:
- a default .gasganorc configuration file under $HOME.
- default classification rules (*.rul files) under a $HOME/gasgano/ directory.
but only if these files didn't exist prior to the GASGANO V1.5.1 installation.

This completes the installation process.
To run the executable, just add <installation-directory>/gasgano-1.5.1/bin to your $PATH environment variable:
    setenv PATH "<installation-directory>/gasgano-1.5.1/bin:"$PATH
(be aware of calling the latest Gasgano release first, and not any previous one).

Possible files to update are:
    $HOME/.tcshrc
    $HOME/.cshrc
    $HOME/.login

Finally, enter the

    gasgano

command, possibly after issuing rehash.
If the GASGANO main panel appears, then you have successfully installed GASGANO. You can then delete the compressed TAR file.
Last step is to make sure you are running the expected GASGANO 1.5.1 release: check the version number listed at the top of the main GASGANO panel.

GASGANO Users' Manual

Current Version: 2

The GASGANO Users' Manual is available for download (with figures; GNUZIP PDF, 1.6 Mbytes compressed). Please beware when printing hardcopies that the manual is more than 60 pages long!

Bug Reports

Please, refer to the list of main known problems, limitations and possible hints for the current GASGANO release.

If you experience an expected behavior of GASGANO, please send a bug report to the ESO User Support Group, describing:

the GASGANO release you are using
the version of your OS
the exact sequence of actions you performed before the bug occurred
what were precisely the symptoms and the possible error message(s)
whether the bug is repeatable