Running the kaiju software
Before you begin
These instructions use the makeitso.py, engage.py and
makeitso-gamhelio.py tools, all belonging to the family of scripts
we call makeitso,
to simplify the process of configuring and running the kaiju code. These
scripts are provided as part of the kaiju package, but also require the
kaipy Python package, which can be installed into your Python environment
with the command:
pip install kaipy
The documentation for kaipy, including instructions for building a Python
environment with all prerequisites, is available on
Read the Docs.
Important
Building the NASA CDF (Common Data Format) library.
The kaipy package requires the NASA CDF library, which
should be available when you create your Python environment for kaipy.
This requirement will be removed in a future release of the kaiju
software. Instructions for installing the CDF library can be found
here.
Important
The kaipy code requires python version 3.10 or later. If you try to
run the kaipy code using a different version of python, you may
encounter compatibility issues.