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IDL

  1. IDL
    1. Description
    2. Version
    3. Authorized Users
    4. Platforms
    5. Installation
        1. IDL Windows Installation
        2. IDL Linux Installation

Last Modified: 07/12 12:15

Description

IDL's features include: advanced image processing, interactive 2-D and 3-D graphics, object oriented programming, insightful volume visualization, a high-level programming language, integrated mathematics and statistics, flexible data I/O, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, and versatile program linking tools.

Version

  • 6.3

Authorized Users

  • Students doing research
  • Faculty

Platforms

  • Workstation/PC

Installation

Contents

Installing On Windows
Installing On Linux

IDL Windows Installation

NOTICE: IDL on Windows is a new product. These instructions are intended to be as easy as possible, but have had minimal testing.

  1. Get the installation executable from  https://rc.usf.edu/isos . Log into the FTP server using your NetID and password. Change to the directory /pub/IDL/current/windows and download the exe file. Once the download is finished disconnect from the FTP server.
  2. Run the installer by double clicking on the executable file you downloaded in the previous step.
  3. Click next on the introduction screen.
  4. Read through the license agreement and then click Yes to proceed.
  5. Click next on the release notes screen.
  6. On the next screen, verify your personal information and click next.
  7. The radio button next to IDL should be checked. Click next.
  8. Click next to accept the default directory (Highly suggested)
  9. Click next to accept features covered under this license. (Any changes may make install fail.)
  10. Click next to start install.
  11. Click Yes on the next screen to run the license application.
  12. Click on the Permanent Icon in the next window to continue. Then click on the License icon.
  13. On the next window click on the Browse button to select the license.dat file the Research Computing has provided you. If you need a license, please see the license request form here.
  14. Click Next to continue, after you have selected the license file. Then click Finish on the next dialog box.
  15. Click Exit on the Installation Complete window to end the installation process.

IDL Linux Installation

  1. Get the ISO CD image from  https://rc.usf.edu/isos. Log into the FTP server using your NetID and password. Change to the directory /pub/IDL/current and download the ISO file. Once the download is finished disconnect from the FTP server.
  2. Log on as root on your machine.
  3. Mount the CD. If you have the ISO image and do not want to burn it to CD, you can mount the ISO image as a loop-back device. This is done by executing the following command as root:

# mount -o loop -t iso9660 -r image.iso mount-point/

where image.iso is the name of the IDL ISO image downloaded from our ftp server and mount-point/ is the directory where you want the contents of the IDL ISO to appear.

  1. Run the Installation Wizard located in $MOUNT/xinstall.sh where $MOUNT is the mount point for the CD or the ISO image.
  2. Read through the license agreement and then click Yes to proceed.
  3. On the next screen, leave everything as default. If you have a 64-bit machine select Linux - X86 (64-bit) as your platform. Then click OK... to move on.
  4. Click Yes to create the program directory. This will return you to the Product Installation page. Click OK... again to continue.
  5. Click Install on the IDL Installation Summary page to continue.
  6. On the next screen click Create Links, on the next screen you may set the directory where you wish to have the links created, we recommend leaving this the default, /usr/local/bin. Click OK to continue.
  7. Click Yes on the next screen to run the license application.
  8. Click on the Permanent Icon in the next window to continue. Then click on the License icon.
  9. On the next window click on the Browse button to select the license.dat file the Research Computing has provided you. If you need a license, please see the license request form here.
  10. Click Next to continue, after you have selected the license file. Then click Finish on the next dialog box.
  11. A Online Help window will come up after this, you may read through it if you like, otherwise close the window.
  12. Click Exit on the Installation Complete window to end the installation process.

You should now be able to start idlde (graphical mode) or idl (text mode) from the command line.