Alternative ways to Install PathVisio

At this time, the recommended way to run PathVisio is by click the link on the download page: this will run PathVisio through webstart and will ensure that you're always running the latest version.

Webstart isn't perfect, and in the following situations you may want to use an alternative method:

• If you want PathVisio to be always available offline
• If you want to work with experimental plugins: webstart security prevents plugins to be loaded from the local disk.

However, you must realize that if you use the alternative methods, PathVisio is not automatically updated.

Microsoft Windows

Download one of the PathVisio-<version>-Setup.exe files from  http://www.pathvisio.org/data/releases . Double-click on the downloaded file to install.

Ubuntu Linux

We make ubuntu packages available through a Personal Package Archive (PPA)

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/martijn-vaniersel/ppa/ubuntu/ karmic main

(Use your current distribution name instead of karmic)

Then you can install pathvisio using

sudo apt-get install pathvisio

Cross-platform

This method is available on all platforms: Simply download the latest binary zip archive from  http://www.pathvisio.org/data/releases . Just select the file with the highest version number that has "bin" in the name.

Unzip it to a location of your choice

Start PathVisio by running either pathvisio.bat (windows) or pathvisio.sh (Mac OS X / Linux)