Latest Stable Release Packages for:
Linux
- Mac
- Windows
Installing on Ubuntu and Debian Linux
IMOD and SELinux
Java for Running eTomo
Cygwin and Emacs for Using IMOD under Windows
Installation Notes
Extra Packages
Alpha and Beta Development Versions of IMOD (IMOD 4.6.x)
Package Archive - Older Versions of IMOD
Compatibility Libraries for Fedora Core 4 Onward
If you have a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, or recent Fedora Core, 32-bit versions of IMOD will not work and you must use a 64-bit version.
To use a GPU for computing, see IMOD Guide for more details about which packages work with which NVIDIA driver versions and operating system versions.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for 64-bit systems (built under RHEL6, should work for Fedora Core 12 onward, and other current Linux versions). This package is built with CUDA 4.1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for 64-bit systems (built under RHEL5, should work for Fedora Core 6 onward, Suse 10.3, and other somewhat older Linux versions). This package is built with CUDA 3.1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for old 64-bit systems (use for Red Hat 4 and Suse 10).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for 32-bit systems (built under RHEL5, should work for Fedora Core 6 onward and Suse 10.3).
Fedora Core 2 32-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.3 for old 32-bit systems (built under Fedora Core 2, use for Red Hat 3 and 4, Suse 9 and 10). This older package has known bugs; use it only if you must.
Latest Stable Release Packages - Mac
To find out what version you need, click on About This Mac under the Apple menu.
The file that you download cannot be clicked on to install it; see the IMOD Guide for instructions on running it at the command line.
Mac OS X - Intel 64-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.8 on 64-bit Intel processors. This package was built on 10.6 with CUDA version 3 and supports computing with the GPU on 10.5 or 10.6.
Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.7 - 64-bit with CUDA 4: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.7 built with CUDA version 4. This package is needed for computing with the GPU under 10.7/10.8 or with a Quadro 4000 card.
Mac OS X 10.5-10.6 - Intel 32-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.6 on Intel processors. This package also supports computing with the GPU and was built on 10.5.
Mac OS X - PPC 64-bit Download IMOD 4.5.8 for Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.6 on G5 processors.
Mac OS X - PPC 32-bit: Download IMOD 4.5.8 for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6 on PowerPC processors (G4, G5, etc).
Latest Stable Release Packages - Windows
These packages work on all versions of Windows from Windows 2000 through Windows 8. The "command-line self-installing file" is IMOD 4.5.8 in each case.
Windows 64-bit: Download clickable installer, command-line self-installing file, or compressed tar file of IMOD 4.5.7 for 64-bit Windows versions (will not work with 32-bit Windows). These packages are built with CUDA 3.0.
Windows 64-bit with CUDA 2.1: Download clickable installer, command-line self-installing file, or compressed tar file of IMOD 4.5.7 for 64-bit Windows versions, built with CUDA 2.1. Use these packages if you want to use the GPU and cannot upgrade your NVIDIA drivers to the required level to use a package built with CUDA version 3.
Windows 64-bit with CUDA 4.1: Download clickable installer, command-line self-installing file, or compressed tar file of IMOD 4.5.7 for 64-bit Windows versions, built with CUDA 4.1, which is needed for the newest NVIDIA cards.
Windows 32-bit: Download clickable installer, command-line self-installing file, or compressed tar file of IMOD 4.5.7 for Microsoft Windows. These packages are built with CUDA 3.0.
Installing on Ubuntu and Debian Linux
A few steps are different when installing on Ubuntu, and these are described
at various places in the installation instructions in the
IMOD Guide.
In essence:
IMOD and SELinux
If SELinux is enabled, the IMOD installation script will attempt to change the
security context of the IMOD libraries if appropriate. If problems still
occur with SELinux, please report them.
The sign of trouble with SELinux is a message "cannot restore segment prot
after reloc: Permission denied" when trying to run an IMOD program.
To disable SELinux, change /etc/selinux/config
so that it says SELINUX=disabled.
Java for Running eTomo
You must have a Java run-time environment (JRE) installed to run the eTomo
interface for building tomograms. See
the IMOD Guide for details
about whether the Java available in your version of Linux will
work with eTomo. Java 1.5 or later is required for IMOD 4.3.
For your convenience, here are some versions of Java for:
Cygwin and Emacs for Using IMOD under Windows
For complete IMOD functionality under Windows, you need to install the
Cygwin toolkit. To simplify this process,
we provide both a
Cygwin installer for the
easiest possible initial installation, and also a
package that you
can install from (these two packages are from March 2010). You can also use
the latter package to upgrade from an earlier package that we provided. When
you upgrade, you may see an alarming warning about mount point changes; this
is not relevant for typical usage of Cygwin.
IMOD 4.5 should work reliably with the current version available from Cygwin, even on 64-bit systems. However, the Python executable in current versions is not named python.exe, which is problematic. If you reinstall IMOD after upgrading Cygwin, the IMOD installer will take care of this; otherwise, see the IMOD guide.
To satisfy the terms
of the Cygwin open source license, we also provide the
source code matching the binaries in our package.
If you want to run emacs under Windows, you can get a Cygwin version, or use this package for Windows emacs 21.3.
Installation Notes
The download packages ending in .csh
have been archived with tar, compressed with gzip, and packed with a C
shell script that will install or upgrade IMOD in the recommended location.
They must be run as scripts at the command line and cannot be installed by
clicking on them. The Windows installer packages ending in .exe
can be run by clicking on them.
For instructions on unpacking, installing and setting up
the IMOD environment, see the IMOD User's
guide.
All packages for Linux now contain a copy of the Qt library
that will be used when running IMOD. It is not placed on the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH so it will not interfere with the use of the
Qt library on the system or in other packages.
imodhelp at the command line, or from the help facilities
of eTomo, 3dmod, etc.
Click here for the beta versions, which have generally been running for at least a few days. The alpha subdirectory has the packages when they are first released.
We also make our nightly builds from the current source available. There will often be bugs in these packages, so generally you should not use one unless you have been told to try it. Here they are.
Compatibility Libraries for Fedora Core 4 and Above
Some compatibility libraries may be needed for IMOD 3.xx under Linux. They are
needed if you do a fresh install of Fedora Core 4 onward rather than an upgrade
from a version before FC4.
To run the FC4 or RHEL5 build of IMOD, you need compat-libf2c. The easiest
way to get this is with:
yum install 'compat-libf2c-*'If this does not work, here is a 32-bit rpm and 64-bit rpm for FC7, and a 32-bit rpm and 64-bit rpm for FC8.
-libg2c option.
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
Last comprehensive update, May 8, 2012.