The folks at NCSA need to include EUPS visionWorkbench xpa in their software stack. I will install things by hand as described at RobertLupton.

becker361: cd /tmp/
becker362: wget http://hea-www.harvard.edu/saord/download/xpa/xpa-2.1.7b2.tar.gz
becker363: tar -xzvf xpa-2.1.7b2.tar.gz
becker364: cd xpa-2.1.7b2
becker365: mkdir -p $LSST_ROOT/Linux/external/xpa/2.1.7b2
becker366: ./configure --prefix=$LSST_ROOT/Linux/external/xpa/2.1.7b2
becker367: make
becker368: make install
becker369: echo 'envAppend(PATH, ${PRODUCT_DIR}/bin)' | eups declare -c xpa 2.1.7b2 -M - -r $LSST_ROOT/Linux/external/xpa/2.1.7b2
becker370: setup -v xpa
  Setting up:     xpa                  Flavor: Linux      Version: 2.1.7b2

Well, this is working OK! I think I have the hang of this, aside from the whole envAppend thing... NOTE : I think that this stuff ends up in e.g. ups/WCSTools.table.

becker373: wget http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/visionworkbench/VisionWorkbench.tar.gz   # it says this is version 1.0.1
becker374: tar -xzvf VisionWorkbench.tar.gz
becker375: cd VisionWorkbench-1.0.1/
becker377: mkdir -p $LSST_ROOT/Linux/external/visionWorkbench/1.0.1
becker378: ./configure --prefix $LSST_ROOT/Linux/external/visionWorkbench/1.0.1     # oh no!
  checking for package BOOST_PROGRAM_OPTIONS... ls: /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-*: No such file or directory
  configure: warning: unable to build requested module CORE (no M)!
  etc...
  configure: warning: unable to build requested module VW (no CORE)!
  configure: error: cannot build the Vision Workbench core modules!

Just when I thought things were going smoothly...

I can get it to find boost

   ./configure --with-paths=$LSST_HOME/external/boost/1.33.1/