Purr Installation Notes
Required packages
In principle, the only hard requirement is pyqt3 (Ubuntu/Debian package python-qt3). For rendering of images in purrlogs, you'll need the python PIL library (python-imaging). For rendering of FITS files, you'll need PyFITS (python-pyfits), and pylab for histograms (python-matplotlib python-tk).
Installation
You can check out Purr from out subversion tree as follows:
svn co svn://lofar9.astron.nl/var/svn/repos/trunk/Purr
This will create a directory called Purr. The full path to this directory will need to be added to your PYTHONPATH.
Running Purr
Purr/purr.py will start Purr. By default, Purr will watch the current directory for changes (and generate a purrlog under $CWD/purrlog). You may pass it a list of directories as arguments, Purr will watch all the given directories, and create a purrlog within the first one.