GPlates

GPlates 1.2 =========== Documentation including the user manual, tutorials and the data manual may be found on the User Documentation page of the GPlates website: http://www.gplates.org/docs.html Information about this release may be found on the News page of the GPlates website: http://www.gplates.org/news.html#gplates120 This release consists of fourteen files: * 'GPlates-1.2.0-Darwin-i386.dmg' - a MacOS X installer which contains a GPlates application bundle for Intel systems running MacOS X Leopard (10.5) or above and the sample data noted below, * 'gplates-1.2.0-win.msi' - a ".MSI" Windows installer which contains a binary GPlates executable and the sample data noted below, * 'gplates-1.2.0-win.zip' - contains the GPlates Windows executable and its dependency files, (and the sample data noted below) for users who wish to use GPlates without installing it, * 'gplates-1.2.0-winsrc.zip' - a source zip file for Windows, * 'gplates-1.2.0-unixsrc.tar.bz2' - a source tarball for Linux, * packages for Ubuntu (32-bit Intel and 64-bit AMD) 10.04 (lucid), 10.10 (maverick), 11.04 (natty) and 11.10 (oneiric) ...refer to the "GPlates Ubuntu Packages" section below for more information, * 'gplates-1.2-sample-data.zip' - sample data for Linux users (note: this data is included in the MacOS X and Windows installers) Sample data in the MacOS X and Windows installers (and the standalone sample data zip file) includes: * the EarthByte coastline, rotation files and present-day plate polygon files, * a global marine gravity raster and an ocean-floor age grid (both at 6-minute grid spacing), * a global topography/bathymetry raster (at 4-minute grid spacing), * Bernhard Steinberger's time-dependent dynamic topography raster images, * the time-dependent ocean floor-age and spreading-rate raster images, created by the EarthByte group. The GPlates source code and binaries are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GPlates 1.2.0 compiles and runs on Linux, MacOS X 10.5 (and above), Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Intel MacOS X installer works on Intel systems running MacOS X version 10.5 or above. The Windows installer works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. GPlates is developed at the University of Sydney, the California Institute of Technology and the Norwegian Geological Survey. For more information on GPlates, visit the GPlates website: http://www.gplates.org/ GPlates Ubuntu Packages ======================= To install GPlates on Ubuntu, download the .deb file appropriate for your system and double-click on it. Packages are available for 10.04 (Lucid), 10.10 (Maverick), 11.04(Natty) and 11.10(Oneiric). If you do not know which version of Ubuntu is installed, open a terminal and enter the following: cat /etc/lsb-release and note the codename displayed. GPlates will then be installed in /usr/bin/gplates. Note that this will overwrite older GPlates releases, if present. Note that sample data is now provided by the Ubuntu packages. You can find the sample data in /usr/share/gplates/SampleData.