Installing IDL or ENVI for Windows

You may be required to restart your computer during the installation process. To avoid losing unsaved information, save all open files and close any open applications before installing IDL or ENVI.

If you are prompted to reboot after installation, you may need to run the license wizard by selecting one of the following:

Start Programs IDL x.x License Wizard

Start Programs ENVI x.x License Wizard

Insert the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive. After a short delay, the installer starts. If the installer does not start automatically, select Start

Run. In the Run dialog, type X:\autorun.exe, where X is the name of your CD-ROM drive, and click OK.

Click Install 32-bit software or Install 64-bit software (where software refers to IDL or ENVI) from the autorun program. The InstallShield Wizard dialog appears.

Click Next. The License Agreement dialog appears.

Read the license agreement, then click Yes if you agree. The Choose Destination Location dialog appears.

Select the installation directory. The default installation directory displays, which is Program Files\ITT on the local hard drive. To install in a different location, click Browse. In the Choose Folder dialog, select an alternate location and click OK.

The installation directory will be referred to as ITT_DIR for the remainder of the installation and licensing instructions.

If you are installing 64-bit IDL or ENVI, the installer installs all of the files for 32-bit and 64-bit versions. For information on running IDL or ENVI in either mode, see Running IDL or ENVI under Windows.

If you are installing ENVI, and IDL is already installed on your system, ENVI is automatically installed below the IDL distribution in the \products folder. The Destination Folder dialog will not appear, and you will not be able to choose a path for your ENVI installation. If you do not want ENVI installed in this path, you must uninstall IDL and reinstall it in the path where you want ENVI to be installed.

Click Next to accept the directory that is displayed. The Select Features dialog appears.

The typical installation features are pre-selected and indicated by check marks. Clicking a feature displays information about that option. To add a feature to your installation, click to enable the check box and install the feature on your hard drive. To not install a feature, click to clear the check box.

If you choose to install the DICOM Network Services module, you will be asked if you want to configure the network services to start automatically at boot time.

If you choose to install the IDL On the Net (ION) software, you will be prompted for ION configuration information.

Click Next to continue.

If you choose to install ION Java, you will be prompted to enter your Web server's default directory containing HTML files to automatically copy the necessary ION Java files to the Web server directory. This directory is often called htdocs (on the Apache Web server) or wwwroot (on the IIS Web server). For the Apache Web Server, the path to this directory might be similar to the following:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs

Enter the path and click Next to continue.

If you have installed a previous version of ION Java and have an existing IONJava directory within the htdocs directory, it will be renamed to IONJava.backup.

If you choose to install ION Script, the Web Server Configuration dialog will prompt you for the location of your Web server's CGI executables directory. Following is the default location if you did not select to install the ION Java component:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\cgi-bin

If you selected to install the ION Java component and previously entered a location for the Apache Web Server (the htdocs directory), the Web server field in the Web Server Configuration dialog contains this string with cgi-bin replacing htdocs; for example:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\cgi-bin

If you leave the Web server field blank because you have not yet installed a Web server, you will need to manually copy ion-i.exe and ion-p.exe from the ITT_DIR\idlxx\products\ion_script\cgi-bin directory to the CGI executables directory of your Web server after it has been installed.

In the second field of the Web Server Configuration dialog, specify the fully qualified domain name and path to the CGI executables directory for your Web server. For example:

myhost.mydomain.com/cgi-bin

Enter the domain name and path, and click Next to continue.

If you leave this field blank because you have not yet installed a Web server, the installer will use your Windows machine name, and the path to your CGI executables directory will be assumed to be \cgi-bin. To access ION over the Internet once you have installed your Web server, you will need to update the Image Server and ION Script Parser URLs on the URLs tab of the ION Script Configuration utility (Start Programs ION x.x ION Script Configuration) to use the fully qualified domain name and the proper path to your Web server's CGI executable directory. For more information, see Configuring ION Script for Windows.

If you are installing ENVI, a dialog appears that asks if you want to register the JPIP URL file type with ENVI Zoom. Click Yes to register this file type.

The Start Copying Files dialog appears. Click Next. The Setup Status dialog appears and shows the installation progress.

When installation is complete, you are prompted to run the license wizard. See Using the License Wizard. If you choose not to run the license wizard as part of the installation process, you can click No and run it later by selecting Programs IDL x.x License Wizard or Programs ENVI x.x License Wizard from the Windows Start menu.

A dialog appears that indicates the installation was successful.

By default, the release notes appear once you click Finish. You can uncheck this option in the completion dialog if you wish.

Your installation is now complete.

To modify or repair your installation, insert the installation CD-ROM and click Install 32-bit software or Install 64-bit software (where software refers to IDL or ENVI) from the autorun program. From the Program Maintenance dialog, you can modify the installed components or repair your installation.

Installing IDL or ENVI Silently and Unattended

You can install IDL or ENVI unattended by creating an install script. Run this function using the /s and /f1 parameters on the setup32.exe file (setup64.exe for 64-bit software) for the installation. Choose a syntax below to run the install script, depending on your platform (32-bit or 64-bit). The command is one line:

The setupxx.exe file and a sample unattend.iss response file are located on the installation CD. The sample unattend.iss is set up to install all features by default. Use this file as an example to create your own .iss file.

To record your own unattend32.iss or unattend64.iss response file, run the installer with the following command:

Select the desired features and responses during this installation. The resulting response file can be used with future silent installations.

Prerequisites

For the silent installer to be successful, the target system must have the MSI Installer Engine version 3.1, which is available directly from Microsoft.