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How to get IDA Python to work with IDA Demo
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How to get IDA Python to work with IDA Demo

Go to the IDAPython binaries page. Download the latest _linux.zip file and extract it. In my case, it was idapython-6.9.0-python2.7-linux.zip. Follow the instructions in its README.txt.

For simplicity, I have copy pasted the relevant portions here:

1. Install 2.6 or 2.7 from http://www.python.org/
2. Copy the whole "python" directory to %IDADIR%
3. Copy the contents of the "plugins" directory to the %IDADIR%\plugins\
4. Copy "python.cfg" to %IDADIR%\cfg

In order to do step 1 correctly on a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04, I had to run sudo apt-get install libpython2.7:i386 and get all the libraries needed with their 32 bit versions. Rest of the steps are quite straight forward. BTW, %IDADIR% is the directory where you have IDA extracted/installed.

Now, whenever you open IDA, you will have access to IDA Python.

Note: Some of the functions like idaapi.init_hexrays_plugin() will obviously not work (since you don't have a decompiler in Demo), but most things should work otherwise.

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