Downloading Ferret for Intel-based Mac OSX

Ferret v6.3

Welcome to the MAC OS X download page for Ferret.

Ferret v6.3 was built through cooperative support by Markus Pahlow at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR) This executable runs on OSX-10.5 (Leopard) and OSX-10.6 (Snow Leopard), 64-bit machines . The installation script will install Ferret v6.3. Ferret v6.2 is also included, residing in the bin/ directory.

Installation Instructions

- Installation and update guide

Environment and Executable files

These are files that are required for Ferret installation (Gzipped files using Unix "gzip" command).

- Ferret Executables
- Ferret Environment
- Ferret Datasets
  - Some of the data files within this collection are not absolutely required for Ferret installation. See the Installation and update guide for guidance.

Documentation files

- On-line Ferret Users Guide
- List of all documentation

Source Code

For Users who are having trouble running the pre-compiled binaries, and if you would like to try building Ferret yourself, please see the link on the main Downloads page for the source code.

Miscellaneous Datasets

Previous Versions

Release History

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