Tethys uses freely available software and may be installed and modified freely. Our server component relies on Microsoft ODBC technology for reading data from spreadsheets and databases and currently relies on the Windows operating system. In principal, this is portable to Linux and MacOS, but to date there has not been community demand for running the server on non-Windows operating systems. Tethys client software can be run on other platforms, but may require compilation of libraries in some cases.
Windows Installation
What should I download?
Links to specific versions are provided in the release history.
Starting with Tethys version 3, software is provided as in-place executables and does not require execution of an installer program. This change was made to permit the use of Tethys without administrative privileges.
Tethys 3.0 and later: Unzip the archive(s) to the folder where you wish to manage Tethys. In some releases, there are multiple archives so that users of client software do not have to download the databases. All files should be unzipped to the same folder as some Tethys software relies on folders being siblings of one another. The Documentation directory contains a “read me first” file that will get you started using Tethys.
Tethys 2.5 and earlier: Unzip the archive to a temporary folder, then execute the installer.
Requirements
As of version 2.3, Tethys requires a 64 bit Windows operating system. If you wish to add data to Tethys using ODBC technology which will allow imports from Microsoft Office documents (e.g. Excel, Access) or other databases, the machine running the server code must either h