CARTA

Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 packages are available from our PPA. Our packages may also work on other distributions based on these Ubuntu releases.

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.

Note: 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 host the CARTA RPMs on the Fedora Copr service. Our packages should work on RHEL or the equivalent community distributions (like AlmaLinux or RockyLinux).

Follow these steps to add the Copr repository and install CARTA (root access is required):

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

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

We officially support macOS 14 (Sonoma) and macOS 15 (Sequoia) through Homebrew. Earlier macOS versions may work, but are not tested.

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.

You can download the CARTA Electron Desktop app for macOS by clicking the appropriate download button below. We provide an x86_64 version for Intel-based Macs and an arm64 version for Apple Silicon-based Macs.

After downloading, open the DMG installer and drag the CARTA icon to the Applications folder.

To launch CARTA, click the CARTA icon in the Launchpad. Alternatively, you may create an alias for starting CARTA in your terminal. For 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 simply by 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 AppImage can run universally on Ubuntu and RedHat platforms (and should also work on other distributions), but there are separate versions for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.

Either click on one of the download buttons 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

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 your system has trouble with FUSE, please prefix with the following environment variable:

APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1 ./carta-x86_64.AppImage

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