Fairmat Academic is supported for the following platforms:

Windows

Windows XP SP2 or later is required, and a minimum of  50 MB of free space (*1) and 512 MB of RAM are required.

Linuxes

Ubuntu 8.10 or later is required, and at least 50 MB of free space (*2) and 512 MB of RAM are required. OpenSuse 11.1 or later is required.

From April 2012 Fairmat Academic is also included in the Ubuntu app center.

Mac OSX

OSX 10.5 or later is required, and at least 150 MB of free space and 1GB of RAM are required.

Notes:

(*1) Additional  space is required if the .Net 4.0 framework is missing. If the .Net framework is missing, it will be installed automatically by the installer package. Alternatively it can be downloaded manually from the Microsoft website  here, and must be installed before installing Fairmat.

(*2) More space will be required if missing packages need to be installed. The required packages will be installed automatically.