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Installing Ferret

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License Agreement

FERRET is available in binary for each of the systems listed below.

For the core supported Ferret binaries, here is information about shared-object libraries and Ferret executables.

> Core Supported Operating Systems:

> The release includes executables for linux RedHat 5, 32-bit and 64-bit; and one built under 64-bit and 32-bit linux RedHat 6, which should run on many of the other, free linux operating systems. Using compatibility libraries and installing the RedHat 5 executables will work as well. These are linked with NetCDF-4 libraries, with OPeNDAP dataset access enabled.

> - 32-bit Linux (RedHat 5) v6.81
> - 64-bit Linux (RedHat 5) v6.81
> - 64-bit Linux (RedHat 6 and equivalent) v6.81. Best for the various free Unix operating systems
> - 32-bit Linux (RedHat 6 and equivalent) v6.81. Best for the various free Unix operating systems
> - Mac OS X Intel v6.81 For Leopard(10.5), Snow Leopard(10.6) and Lion(10.7)

> Ferret Source Code Downloads v6.81

> Cooperatively Supported and older Operating Systems:

> - Altix ia64 v6.6.1
> - Solaris10 v6.6 solaris10 X86
> - 32-bit LINUX v6.5 linked with libraries from OPeNDAP
> - 64-bit LINUX v6.5 Linked with libraries from OPeNDAP
> - Linux statically linked for other linux platforms v6.5 linked with libraries from OPeNDAP

> Win32(98,NT,2000) V5.53 Windows XP V5.51 | PLEASE NOTE! An alternative for running Ferret under Windows: We have had good successes running Ferret under the (free) Virtual Box virtualization environment. Install Virtual Box and then intstall one of the available free and well supported Unix platforms such as Ubuntu. This gives you an environment where you can install and run a Ferret executable for Linux. It also means you can run the latest Ferret releases rather than the old versions available for Windows. See the WINDOWS README file for more details.

> - Mac OS X PowerPc v6.4 Powerpc-Apple-Darwin 8.9.0
> - Mac OS X v5.70
> - SGI IRIX 6.x
> - IBM AIX v6.3
> - Sun (Solaris 5.8) v6.08
> - Sun (Solaris 5.6) v5.81
> - LINUX (RedHat 7.1 - built with g77/gcc v3.2.2) v5.81
> - DEC Alpha/OSF-1 V5.51

> Beta Releases (Includes Linux, Solaris, Win32, SGI IRIX and AIX operating systems)

The Installation Guide (Unix,WinNT/98)will lead you through the installation procedure.

Up-to-date demonstration, tutorial,example script files

If you have questions about the installation (or bug reports) please send them to oar.pmel.contact_ferret@noaa.gov Once you are running Ferret, please join the Ferret Users' list where questions and comments about using Ferret are discussed; you will also receive information about updates and new releases.

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Phone: (206) 526-6239 ~ Fax: (206) 526-6815 Email: oar.pmel.contact_ferret@noaa.gov