Install dx

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About

OpenDX is a uniquely powerful, full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open system design is built on familiar standard interface environments. And its sophisticated data model provides users with great flexibility in creating visualizations.

Linux

See http://pkgs.org/download/dx or http://pkgs.org/centos-6/epel-i386/dx-4.4.4-11.el6.3.i686.rpm.html

Download the latest epel-release rpm from

cd $HOME/Downloads
curl http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm -o epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release*rpm
yum install dx


Build: https://sourceforge.net/p/opendx/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

cd $HOME/Downloads
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/opendx/code/trunk opendx-code

MAC

Buy for 25$ from http://www.vizsolutions.com.
When you pay by Paypal, you get a mail with instructions to install. That mail will probably end-up in a spam filter. Remember to check there.

After installing, in your home .bash_profile, add this

# Use OpenDX/usr/local/bin
alias dx='open -a /Applications/OpenDX-4.4.4/OpenDX.app'

Then you can open dx files from terminal

See also

Dx map