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Stable version (2.31):
Sources,
RPMs,
Fedora,
SuSE,
Gentoo,
Debian,
Ubuntu,
Linux Mint,
Slackware,
FreeBSD,
Mac OS X,
MS Windows,
Patches,
Nightly snapshots,
Other (old, development) versions,
Sample data files,
Sample standalone module.
See also: Gwyddion download at SourceForge, chapter Installation of the user guide.
Downloadable from their own pages: User guide, Gwyddion apps.
Version 2.31, released 21 February 2013. See the documentation for installation details.
| Source tarball (xz): | gwyddion-2.31.tar.xz | 2013-02-21 | 2.69 MB |
| PGP/GnuPG signature: | gwyddion-2.31.tar.xz.sig | 2013-02-21 | 72 B |
| Source tarball (gzip): | gwyddion-2.31.tar.gz | 2013-02-21 | 4.67 MB |
| PGP/GnuPG signature: | gwyddion-2.31.tar.gz.sig | 2013-02-21 | 72 B |
There are too many RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions (and too many architectures) Gwyddion can run on. Binary rpms were more confusing than helpful and therefore they are no longer published. Check whether your distribution provides a package (and prod it lightly if it does not), known distribution-provided RPMs are listed below.
You can build a rpm directly from the source code tarball:
rpmbuild -tb gwyddion-2.31.tar.xz
If it fails on your distribution, please report it as a bug and we will try to fix the compatibility problems. Since Gwyddion is primarily developed on Fedora the RPM package is probably most tested on Fedora, but it is adapted to other distributions too.
Gwyddion packages are available in a Yum repository on this site. This repository closely follows development and mostly offers only packages for the x86_64 architecture and current version of Fedora. It is namely intended to ease installation of the cross-compilation dependencies, nevetheless, Gwyddion itself is also included. Install the repository configuration package:
| F17 repository configuration: | gwyddion-release-17-1.fc17.noarch.rpm | 2013-01-25 | 4.93 kB |
| F18 repository configuration: | gwyddion-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm | 2013-02-21 | 4.98 kB |
which makes Gwyddion and the MingGW packages available.
A Gwyddion package is available in OpenSuSE in the science
repository. See the
gwyddion package status
for more.
Gwyddion is now available to Gentoo users through the Portage tree. Just do
emerge gwyddion
It may be masked though (at the time of writing this it's masked as a new package) so you may need to add
sci-visualization/gwyddion
to /etc/portage/package.keywords. See
Gentoo sci-visualization/gwyddion package page
for current package status.
Packages for Debian are available from the official Debian repositories. You can install Gwyddion simply by issuing
apt-get install gwyddion
(or using your favourite package managment front end, of course).
As the versions in Debian stable outdate quickly, the Debian maintainer tries to provide backports of the most recent version. See http://www.beathovn.de/ for more information.
Ubuntu packages should be available from the universe repository since Ubuntu 8.04, installable as usual by issuing
sudo apt-get install gwyddion
(or using your favourite package managment front end, of course), see also package information.
Since it typically takes a few months for a new version to appear in the official repository, you might also wish to use the custom Gwyddion repository maintained by Nicola Ferralis, see https://launchpad.net/~gwyddion-spm for more.
Linux Mint contains a Gwyddion package which seems to be updated sort of semiregularly. See the gwyddion package status in Linux Mint.
A Slackware build script for Gwyddion, maintained by Даниил Браташов, is available at SlackBuilds.
A port of Gwyddion is available from the ports collection. You can install
science/gwyddion
by standard means. See status of Gwyddion in FreeBSD.
Originally, this port was created by Yeti who no longer has resources to update it. It should be updated by Muhammad Moinur Rahman at present (as least occassionally).
Both major collections of Unix software for OS X, MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) and Fink, offer a Gwyddion package.
The MacPorts port, maintained by Rolf Würdemann, can be installed as
science/gwyddion by standard means.
If you use Fink, you can install the
gwyddion package
using dselect or apt-get. This package seems to
be maintained somewhat less actively, though.
See also OS X Installation section of the user guide.
If you upgrade from version 2.22 or older to 2.23 or newer please see this information before.
| Win32 installer: | Gwyddion-2.31.win32.exe | ||
| Win64 installer: | Gwyddion-2.31.win64.exe |
The 32bit MS Windows executables include support for Python scripting but you need to install Python (and pygtk) yourself if you want to use it. See instructions in the user guide.
The 64bit executables do not include Python scripting support yet and at still considered somewhat experimental.
We occasionally publish patches fixing annoying problems or omissions in the last stable version that can be easily corrected.
Patches for version 2.31:
None
The latest development snapshot that succeeded to build. Note a successful build doesn't mean it runs or works properly. It may be incompatible with previous and/or future versions in intricate ways. Do not install it unless you know what you are doing. For serious use, we recommend to use the stable versions.
Stable branch (2.x):
| Source tarball (xz): | gwyddion-head.tar.xz | 2013-05-25 | 2.76 MB |
| Source tarball (gzip): | gwyddion-head.tar.gz | 2013-05-25 | 4.8 MB |
| Win32 Installer: | Gwyddion-head.win32.exe | 2013-05-25 | 17.4 MB |
| Win64 Installer: | Gwyddion-head.win64.exe | 2013-05-25 | 17.6 MB |
An Ubuntu PPA with the development version, maintained by Nicola Ferralis, also available as well as a script building the development snapshots on OS X.
What are the changes since version 2.31? See the top of NEWS file in the code repository. It may not be updated immediately after each change though.
To see Gwyddion at work even if none of the formats you use is currently supported (file format list), you can download some sample data files in Gwyddion native format.
Available sample data files:
| Version 1 files | |||
| Microchip surface: | chip.gwy | 2011-05-11 | 703 kB |
| ZnTe epitaxial film surface: | znte.gwy | 2011-05-11 | 1.91 MB |
| Interferometric grid surface: | bipm.gwy | 2011-05-11 | 1.91 MB |
| Version 2 files | |||
| All three surfaces: | samples.gwy | 2011-05-11 | 4.5 MB |
| Gwyddion simple field files | |||
| Microchip surface: | chip.gsf | 2011-05-11 | 352 kB |
Threshold-example is a sample nontrivial (with a GUI) standalone module
that can serve as a base for your modules. It compiles both on GNU/Linux and
cross-compiles for MS Windows (please see the included README
file for detailed instructions).
| Source code tarball (bzip2): | threshold-example-2.1.tar.xz | ||
| Source code tarball (gzip): | threshold-example-2.1.tar.gz |
Only source code is provided, as the module is not particularly useful as a data processing tool, its point is to demonstrate how to build a standalone Gwyddion extension module.