Installation and Licensing

Requirements

PlanetGIS requires the Microsoft Windows operating system (version 7 or newer), a minimum of 512MB of available RAM and 30MB of hard disc space for installation. For installation to the Program Files folder, you will also need administrator’s privileges.

Apple Mac (MacOS)

PlanetGIS does not run natively on MacOS, but can be run on Apple hardware by using a Windows emulator, virtual machine or dual boot system. The same applies to the Linux operating system.

• Emulators: Wine (free) or CrossOver Mac/Linux ($64)
  CrossOver is based on Wine and purchases of CrossOver fund the Wine project. CrossOver is much easier to work with.
• Virtual machines: VirtualBox (free) or VMWare Fusion ($199) or Parallels ($100) and install Windows on it.
  This option requires a Windows license.
• Or use Boot Camp (for Mac) or any other multi-operating system bootloader (Linux) to install Windows on the same computer.

Downloading the Software