Downloading Ferret for Linux: statically linked

Ferret v6.5

Note: We have had reports the Ferret RedHat built with gcc/g77 has successfully been installed on SuSe 8.x systems, and also on Fedora Core 3 (FC3). You might try downloading the RedHat 32-bit executables first, and come back to the statically-linked executable if you run into incompatibilities with libraries.

This build has been successfully installed on SuSE Linux 9.3 Linux xxxxx 2.6.11.4-21.17-smp x86_64

Installation Instructions

- Installation and update guide Please skip the information about external functions shared object files. This capability does not work with a statically-linked executable.

Environment and Executable files

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

- Ferret Executables
- Ferret Environment files
  - The external functions capability is not available with the statically-linked executable. The shared object .so files for external functions are not included in the distribution. See the Installation and update guide for a note about this.
- 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

- On-line Ferret Web Pages

Source Code

For Users of other Linux flavors, 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