Installation

The easiest way to install IDV_teleport is:

pip install idv_teleport

To update an existing installation use:

pip install --upgrade idv_teleport

IDV_teleport is currently untested in Windows based operating systems.

Requirements

IDV software is needed. To let the utility know the installation of IDV in the current environment, environment variable IDV_HOME needs to be set to IDV installation directory.

For instance in

BASH environment:

export IDV_HOME=/path/to/IDV_5.4u1

CSH environment:

setenv IDV_HOME /path/to/IDV_5.4u1

for MacOS users the path is typically in /Applications/IDV_5.4u1

Note

IDV_teleport can run in headless mode (without a screen). To enable headless mode a virtual X server utility called Xvfb is needed and a default display environment variable needs to be set. Xvfb is eihter installed by default or can be installed through software package manager in popular Linux distributions.

To set a default display variable in bash shell use:

export DISPLAY=:0