CARTA

Ubuntu 20.04, and 22.04 packages are available from our PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cartavis-team/carta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install carta

To start CARTA, please refer to the user manual How to Run CARTA.

The 'carta-beta' package is updated with intermediate preview releases as well as official releases. Users may install this package instead if they wish to receive these updates, and users who already have 'carta-beta' installed may update their existing package now to obtain this release:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install carta-beta

We now host the CARTA RPMs on the Fedora Copr service.
If you have previously used our old "packages.cartavis.org" RPM repository, we recommend uninstalling any existing carta packages and removing the old cartavis.repo file first:
sudo yum remove carta carta-beta
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/cartavis.repo

Follow these steps to add the Copr repository and install CARTA (Root access is required, unless you install it in a Docker container):
sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-copr
sudo yum -y copr enable cartavis/carta
sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y install carta

We now host the CARTA RPMs on the Fedora Copr service.
If you have previously used our old "packages.cartavis.org" RPM repository, we recommend uninstalling any existing carta packages and removing the old cartavis.repo file first:
sudo dnf remove carta carta-beta
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/cartavis.repo

Follow these steps to add the Copr repository and install CARTA (Root access is required, unless you install it in a Docker container):
sudo dnf -y install 'dnf-command(copr)'
sudo dnf -y copr enable cartavis/carta
sudo dnf -y install epel-release
sudo dnf -y install carta

We officially support macOS 11 Big Sur, macOS 12 Monterey, and macOS 13 Ventura through Homebrew.

If you do not already have it, you may install Homebrew using the following command (root access is required):
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Now CARTA can be installed with:
brew update
brew install --cask cartavis/tap/carta

To start CARTA, please refer to the user manual How to Run CARTA.

The traditional macOS Electron Desktop version can be downloaded by clicking the appropriate download button below. In addition to the standard x86_64 version for Intel based Macs, we now supply a native arm64 version for Apple Silicon based Macs.

Installation:
Click the download button below. After downloading, open the DMG installer and drag the CARTA icon to the Applications folder.
Operation:
Click the CARTA icon in the Launchpad.

Alternatively, you may create an alias for starting CARTA in your terminal.
Here is an example:
Open your ~/.zshrc file (or ~/.bashrc if you use bash) in a text editor and add the following line:
alias carta='/Applications/CARTA.app/Contents/MacOS/CARTA'
Then enter source ~/.zshrc (or source ~/.bashrc) in the terminal.
Now you will be able to start CARTA by simply typing carta in the terminal.
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The CARTA Linux AppImage does not require root access. You simply download, extract, and run it. It uses your default web browser to display the CARTA graphical interface. The CARTA AppImage can now run universally between Ubuntu and RedHat platforms, but we have separate versions for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.

Installation:
Either click the Download button below or run:
wget https://github.com/CARTAvis/carta/releases/latest/download/carta.AppImage.$(arch).tgz
Extract the tarball:
tar -xzf carta.AppImage.$(arch).tgz
Operation:
To start CARTA, please refer to the user manual How to Run CARTA.

Note: If you wish to run the AppImage inside a Docker container, or you system has trouble with FUSE, please prefix with the following environment variable:
APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1 ./carta-4.1-x86_64.AppImage
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