Downloading Ferret for Win32

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.

Ferret v5.53

NOTE: Ferret on the Windows platform requires the Cygwin library for creating graphics windows. There is not a recent version of Cygwin available. Building Ferret under Windows has been on hold until there is a Cygwin update or other developments that allow us to build Ferret on Windows platforms.

Installation Instructions

Environment and Executable files

These are files that are required for Ferret installation.

Documentation

Miscellaneous Datasets

Previous Versions

Release History

Note:

In order to run Ferret on win32 platforms, it is necessary to have an X Window emulation program installed. The following win32 X Window servers are known to work with Ferret. This does not imply any kind of endorsement for the software listed below, but is a starting place to find an X emulation package.

Other known win32 X servers:


http://lab-pro.com/

Please let us know at oar.pmel.contact_ferret@noaa.gov if you have tested these or other X-servers with Ferret.