The visualisation software is written using the Karma package (a library for networked data processing and visualisation). In order to be able to use this library, a number of environment variables have to be set. There are two ways of doing this:
1) is to type:
source /usr/local/karma/.login
You can also include this in your .login file.
2) if you are using the standard .login file, select Karma
All the programs here are available for Unix environments. I have ready access to the following platforms:
so I make binary distributions for these platforms. Karma has also been ported to the following platforms:
but since I don't have ready access, binary distributions may not be forthcoming.
If you want to run Karma under another operating system, I will try to make the executables for it if I can get access to a machine.
Note that on SGI machines, Karma had some problems with the header of datasets that have been converted from FITS, sometimes causing programs to crash. All known bugs have been fixed, however, if you find any more, please contact Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) so the bug can be fixed ASAP.