Have anyone tried to install Interactive Data Language on NixOS?
Should there be a Nix expression or an environment to run the installation script?
https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/~kim/Fermi%20Solar%20Workshop%202012/web_install_idl_all.html
I couldn’t find a good way to get a download… as there’s no links that I saw, but the “lazy” way would be:
nix-shell -p steam-run --run "steam-run bash"
# then follow their instructions
To do a proper nix-package, you will need to pick apart all of the dependencies they require… but I have low hopes as their instructions are just “run ./install.sh” and hope that it works.
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Finally got the GNU Data Language (GDL) built with Nixpkgs!
It can be considered an open-source implementation of IDL the language, and is more Linux friendly IMO.