Download GGobi

The current version of GGobi is 2.1.8, released 12 August 2008.

Windows

1. If you have an old version of GGobi, please delete it first
2. Install the latest version of GTK for Windows (exe, 7 meg)
3. Download and install GGobi for Windows (exe, 600k)

If you also want to install rggobi, you can install everything from within R, with the following command: source("http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/install.r")

OS X

(Currently available for 10.5 only)

Installing GGobi is a simple three step process:

1. First, make sure you have X11 installed: look in Applications/Utilities. If it's not there, you'll need to install it from your OS X DVDs.
2. Next, install Gtk2 (20 meg)
3. And finally, GGobi 2.1.8 itself (5 meg)

On some computers, it takes a very long time to start up the first time, so please be patient.

Linux

Download ggobi-2.1.8.tar.bz2, unzip and untar, and then run:

./configure --with-all-plugins
make
sudo make install
make ggobirc
sudo mkdir -p /etc/xdg/ggobi
sudo cp ggobirc /etc/xdg/ggobi/ggobirc

GGobi requires GTk 2.6 and libxml2.

You may need to include /usr/local/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH if it is not already there

It also available as a package for:

• Debian, install using the usual apt get install ggobi. Provided by Dirk Eddelbuettel
• Fedora Core 6 as an RPM. Provided by Zachary Whitley

rggobi

From R, you should be able to install rggobi from CRAN:
install.packages("rggobi")

It usually takes about a week after the release of GGobi for rggobi to be available

Development

Please follow the developer's install guide to build it from source. Note that this is currently highly unstable and only recommended for the experienced developer.