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        <h1 class="display-2 font-weight-normal">KERN</h1>
        <p class="lead font-weight-normal">KERN is an annually released set of radio astronomical software packages.
            It should contain most of the standard tools that a radio astronomer needs to work with radio telescope
            data. The goal of KERN is to save time and prevent frustration in setting up of scientific pipelines and to
            assist in achieving scientific reproducibility.</p>
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            <h3 class="page-title"><i class="fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down fa-lg"></i> Quick start</h3>
            <p>To quickly get started using KERN run the following command on a Ubuntu 22.04 system:</p>

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$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository -s ppa:kernsuite/kern-9
$ sudo apt-add-repository multiverse
$ sudo apt-add-repository restricted
$ sudo apt-get update</code></pre>
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            <p>Now you are ready to install some packages, for example python3-casacore:</p>
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$ sudo apt-get install python3-casacore
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            If you use KERN in your research please don't forget to cite us:
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@article{molenaar2018kern,
    title={KERN},
    author={Molenaar, Gijs and Smirnov, Oleg},
    journal={Astronomy and Computing},
    year={2018},
    publisher={Elsevier}
}
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            <h3 class="page-title"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up  fa-lg"></i> Sponsors</h3>

            <p>KERN development is supported by</p>
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            <h3 class="page-title"><i class="fab fa-github fa-lg"></i> Reporting issues</h3>
            Does a package misbehave? Is it not working as you expected? are you missing a radio astronomical package?
            Open an issue on our issue tracker!

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                <a class="btn btn-outline-secondary" href="http://github.com/kernsuite/packaging/issues/">Go to the
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