System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

A graphics card and driver supporting OpenGL 2.1 or later is required if you wish to make use of the Workspace’s 3D visualisation capabilities. We strongly recommend you have a dedicated graphics card rather than rely on graphics capabilities offered by on-motherboard chips from Intel, etc. If you do rely on integrated graphics (eg Intel), please ensure you are using the latest stable driver available.

Operating System Requirements

Windows

The Windows packages are suitable for Windows 7, 8 and 10. It is recommended that you uninstall the previous version of the software before installing the new version.

Mac

Workspace is currently built and tested on Mac OSX 10.14 (Mojave) but it will run on versions 10.11 onwards. To install, open the .dmg file, run the installation package inside and follow the on-screen prompts. Workspace will then be accessible from within the Applications folder.

Linux

Our primary Linux target is Ubuntu although Workspace should work on other popular distributions such as Mint, Debian, Fedora or OpenSuse.

Installing on Debian-based Systems (e.g. Ubuntu)

To install on Debian-based systems ensure that you download .deb installer package, double click the file and follow the on-screen prompts.
Alternatively, you can convert the RPM packages into the .deb format using alien. Note that certain options must be used to preserve the pre/post install/uninstall scripts and to prevent the release number from being incremented. The recommended syntax to use is the following:

sudo alien -kcv –bump=0 <workspace package name>.rpm

To install on RPM-base systems, use the command (sudo access may be required):

rpm -Ivh <workspace package name>.rpm

Workspace will be installed to the /opt/csiro.au/Workspace directory.