National Radio
Astronomy Observatory

A.1.3 Download & Unpack

You can download the distribution tar file from

ttp://casa.nrao.edu/casa\_obtaining.stml

This directory will contain two tar files one will be the 32-bit version of CASA and the other will be the 64-bit version of CASA. The file name of the 64-bit version ends with -64b.tar.gz. After downloading the appropriate tar file, untar it with

This will extract a directory with the same basename as the tar file. Change to that directory and add it to your path with, for example,

After that, you should be able to start CASA by running

More information about CASA may be found at the CASA web page

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