I just realised that some presto users (or users-to-be) don't know much about SINGULARITY or DOCKER.
So I will briefly explaine why I created this singularity image, the idea behind this singularity image, and finally the installation instructions.
In short, installing Presto was very much a pain, at least for me 😅 .
Many dependencies for sure, also it is very hard to decide whether you would go for v2 or v3.
I am a Mac user, but have access to a ubuntu VM. I tried to install Presto twice on Mac (failed), and twice on ubuntu (one failed, the second time I succeeded!! Yay!!)
I make this singularity image to help users to save the pain and go find pulsars/FRBs as soon as possible!
As I said earlier, I want to save you some time. So you don't have to know too much about singularity (if you do want to, try google).
The best analogy I can think of is like this:
There is a FRB/pulsar-finding expert, whose name is Presto. You need to build a house (on your computer) to accomondate this expert.
If you use the singularity image file, you will automatically obatin a lovely portable house 🏡 without building it at all - except for installing the singularity.
Yes yes, your FRB/pulsar-finding expert loves this house. So whenever you move the house, the expert will be with you! 7-24 on call!
This house is very portable for you - you can download it to any of your computers/VMs as long as you have singularities installed. Once downloaded, you can use it across platforms - windows, mac, linux...
Instructions see official website (https://sylabs.io/guides/3.0/user-guide/installation.html#)
For Ubuntu users, you can simply follow Section 1 in INSTALLATION RECORDS.md under the same repo
For Mac users, you can download the Singulairty desktop at (https://sylabs.io/singularity-desktop-macos/)
- Once downloaded, double click to open, you will see an installer and an uninstaller. If you have installed a singularity desktop before, please do the uninstaller first and then install.
Feedbacks are welcome 😄