alps-ccd: The ALPS CCD toolbox

This package contains tools to read and analyze CCD frames. It has been tested on Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+.

Required Python packages are:

numpy
scipy
matplotlib

Detailed installation on Ubuntu

This installation instructions describe how to create a new virtualenv and install the package into this.

Install the following Ubuntu packages:
- python-numpy
- python-scipy
- python-matplotlib
- ipython
- python-virtualenv
- git
Prepare install directory:

We will download and install my Python code into a "special" directory (a virtual environment) in order to not pollute your hard disk.

2.1 Create "virtualenv" named ALPS (or any other name and anywhere you like) with:
```
virtualenv --system-site-packages --clear ALPS
```
and activate it for the current shell session:
```
source ALPS/bin/activate
```
2.2 Prepare download directory:
```
mkdir ALPS/src
```
and go there:
```
cd ALPS/src
```
Download and install my packages from GitHub

3.1 Download
git clone https://github.com/eikevons/alps-ccd.git
git clone https://github.com/eikevons/plttools.git
3.1 Install the packages in the "ALPS" virtualenv (from inside
.../ALPS/src/):
cd ../lib/python2.7/site-packages
ln -s ../../../src/alps-ccd/ccd/ .
ln -s ../../../src/plttools/plttools/ .
(Note: The more "standard" way of installing Python packages is to use the setup.py script. But in our case, the code might change frequently and linking as above ensures that the most recent version is used at all times.)

Test that the install worked.

4.1 Start IPython and try to load my modules:
ipython
In [1]: import ccd, ccd.io, ccd.analysis, ccd.analysis.hotpixels
In [2]: import plttools

weinshec/alps-ccd

alps-ccd: The ALPS CCD toolbox

Detailed installation on Ubuntu