Installing Lynkeos

Installing the application

To install Lynkeos, there is nothing more to do than drag the application into the ... Applications folder ; you can even run it from the disk image or the unzipped distribution archive. Well ! You are on a Macintosh, if you wanted a complicated installation setup you should have choosen windows image:biggrin.gif.

Activating optional features

Most users won't need reading this paragraph, but if you need to use AVI or MPEG sequences, load or save images in FITS format, you will need to install some optional packages. Go to the download page at http://lynkeos.sourceforge.net/english/download.html and follow the instructions to choose the package suited to your needs. Once downloaded, just double click on the package to install it, follow the installer instructions and, voilà. Lynkeos is now able to work with the kind of file you need. I know, this is a bit more complicated ; but it is a price paid to avoid the application growing too large. The application self-contains the common needs, and the "less common" needs are provided as external packages.

Now that Lynkeos is installed, you should go on with the Tutorial.