Re: problems reading fits file

[Ben Abbott]

On May 6, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Poulette Poulette wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I am a new octave's user.
> I have a macbook pro with Mountain Lion (osX 10.8.3). I installed the 
> octave-devel +atlas+docs through macports (I already have Xcode, Xquartz, 
> etc...).
> The read_fits_image function doesn't work. 
> I tried to install the fits package but still doesn't work… 
> 
> Someone could explain me how to install the fits package correctly ?
> 
> Thank you very much.

Macports does not yet have a port for the fits package.

I've  not tried to install the fits package myself, but I noticed that it 
requires libcfitsio.  Did you install the macports "cfitsio" package before 
trying to install the fits package?

        sudo port install cfitsio

Ben