Using the LSST Science Pipelines in the terminal

The Notebook Aspect includes the LSST Science Pipelines, making it a convenient way to work with LSST’s software. The version of the LSST Science Pipelines that’s preinstalled corresponds to the image you selected when launching a notebook session.

This page describes how to use the LSST Science Pipelines from the JupyterLab terminal. If you’re working from a Jupyter notebook, see also Using the LSST Science Pipelines in notebooks (LSST kernel).

Setting up the LSST Science Pipelines

  1. Open a terminal. Click the + button in the file browser (or type command-shift-L) and then click the Terminal icon.

  2. Set up LSST Science Pipelines packages:

    setup lsst_distrib

Now you can run LSST Science Pipelines commands. For example:

pipetask -h

See Setting up installed LSST Science Pipelines in the LSST Science Pipelines documentation for more information about EUPS and the setup command.