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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Summary of Installation Commands
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unix> cd $IDL_LOCAL |
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unix> svn |
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export http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlutils/tags/v5_4_20 idlutils [Downloads idlutils] unix> svn export http://www.sdss3.org/svn/repo/idlspec2d/tags/v5_4_30 idlspec2d [Downloads idlspec2d] [Follow instructions on SDSS3 website for compiling idlutils and idlspec2d] [NOTE: some FIRE users have reported problems compiling idlutils on 64 bit machines. See the top post of the known bugs thread for a workaround] unix> svn co https://svn.ucolick.org/xidl/trunk |
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xidl [NOTE: Downloads xidl |
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unix> gunzip fire_v1.0.tar.gz
unix> tar xvf fire_v1.0.tar
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unix> svn co svn://pele.mit.edu//FIRE FIRE [Downloads FIRE] unix> setenv FIRE_DIR $IDL_LOCAL/FIREHOSE/ |
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[NOTE: this should probably be put in your .cshrc or .bashrc file |
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unix> idl |
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IDL> which, "x_specplot" |
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% Compiled module: WHICH. |
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% Compiled module: STRSPLIT. |
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Module X_SPECPLOT Not Compiled. |
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Other Files Containing Module X_SPECPLOT in IDL !path: |
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/Users/Rob/idl/........./x_specplot.pro |
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IDL> firehose |
<GUI appears if installed correctly>
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