3.3.3 Known problems:

It may happen, that the libpgplot.so and libcpgplot.so libraries will not be found:

/home/smueller> boa
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/smueller/BoA/BoA/BoaStart.py", line 26, in ?
    import ppgplot
  File "/home/smueller/BoA//lib/python2.3/site-packages/ppgplot/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
    from _ppgplot import *
ImportError: libpgplot.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

For a first easy solution and if you have root privileges then you can just link or copy the files libcpgplot.a, libcpgplot.so, libpgplot.a and libpgplot.so from $home/BoA/lib/pgplot/ directory to the local lib-directory, i.e. /lib/ or /usr/lib/.

Another possible error message can occur, if swig is missing:

  File "/home/USERNAME/BoA/BoA/cfitsio.py", line 4, in ?
     import _cfitsio
  ImportError: No module named _cfitsio

Here the problem is that swig was not installed on the computer. You also need swig to compile p_cfitsio (download it from http://www.swig.org/ ).