Installation of the firehose pipeline is a multi-step process. It has been tested on the Mac OSX platform (Leopard and Snow Leopard) and also some Linux implementations. We believe that it is stable in these configurations, but some users have reported difficulties installing aspects of the xidl dependency tree. Users are encouraged to examine (and update if appropriate!) the world-editable bugs wiki for tips on how to improve installation of xidl for use with FIRE.
System Requirements
- Unix installation and license for IDL. Preferably v6.0 or higher.
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