Enable the KERN repository <https://kernsuite.info> and install the tigger package.

• Tigger-LSM v1.7.0 - if you are not installing Tigger via the KERN repository or using the install_tigger_ubuntu.sh script provided, please go here <https://github.com/ska-sa/tigger-lsm> and install this first.

Automatically installed Python dependencies:

• numpy
• scipy
• astlib
• astropy
• configparser

• PyQt 5.14.1 (or 5.15.2)
• Qwt 6.1.4 (or 6.1.5)
• PyQt-Qwt 1.9.0 (or greater)

These are already present in most Linux distributions. Please note that, this package does not use the version of PyQt 5 that is installable from PyPI. Tigger also uses a version of PyQt-Qwt from GitHub.

Download the Tigger repository:

git clone https://github.com/ska-sa/tigger.git

The installation script works on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 21.04.

Run the installation script and enter sudo password when prompted:

./install_tigger_ubuntu.sh

After the Tigger repository has been downloaded with git clone https://github.com/ska-sa/tigger.git, please run the following:

sudo apt -y install python3-pyqt5.qtsvg python3-pyqt5.qtopengl libqwt-qt5-6
sudo dpkg -i debian_pkgs/ubuntu_20_04_deb_pkg/python3-pyqt5.qwt_2.00.00-1build1_amd64.deb
python3 setup.py install --user

Please note that the above commands are for installing on Ubuntu 20.04, Debian packages for 18.04 and 21.04 are located in the ubuntu_18_04_deb_pkg and ubuntu_21_04_deb_pkg directories respectively.

Run the installed tigger binary, or search for tigger from Ubuntu's 'Show Applications' icon in the dock (after logging off and on again).

Open an issue on github

https://github.com/ska-sa/tigger