Setup | Spektar Design Lab

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System requirements

Spektar requires a modern 64bit CPU and at least 4Gb of RAM to run. For best results and more demanding designs, please use modern, multi-core CPUs and 16Gb of ram.

Download

Get the installer for Windows and linux from here.

We only have limited support for Intelx64 on MacOS. Please go to the MacOs section.

Upgrade

It is a good idea to uninstall previous version before installing a new one.

Your work is stored in your user home folder (user.home/Documents/Spektar) so uninstallation doesn’t affect your work.

Installation

Installers are provided for major operating systems. Please use native installation - typically a double-click on the downloaded file will do just fine.

Uninstall

Please us OS specific installation method to remove Spektar.

Installers do not remove your work and settings. These are in your user-home/Documents/Spektar. To revert your system fully to original state you could also delete this. Note however all your work will be lost if this folder is deleted.

Windows

Spektar runs on Windows 7 and later. The easiest way to start Spektar is to select “Create desktop icon” during install. In this case, the shortcut will be on your desktop. Otherwise, you will have to create a shortcut where you want it, and point it to Spektar.exe in your installation directory - by default this is C:\Program Files\Spektar.

Removing Spektar is easy from the Control Panel -> Programs and Features, which will remove the app but not your user files. You can delete this from user.home/Documents/Spektar.

Linux - RPM installation

Please use your native system packager.

If for some reason you want to use command line command is:

user@machine$ sudo rpm -i Spektar-0.3.4.rpm

Spektar installs into /opt/Spektar. There is a desktop file there which you can place in a menu or on the desktop.

Spektar should be in your path after installation. You can run it from the command line as follows:

user@machine$ Spektar &

To uninstall from command line do this:

user@machine$ sudo rpm -e Spektar

Linux - DEB installation

Please use your native system packager. Spektar installs into /opt/Spektar. There is a desktop file there which you can place in a menu or on the desktop.

Spektar should be in your path after installation. You can run it from the command line as follows:

user@machine$ Spektar &

Installing and running on MacOs

Spektar runs well on MacOs but we do not presently follow Apple application signing rules. Additionally due to multiple architectures on MacOS and a small target audience, we had to make a difficult decision to stop supporting MacOS.

MacOS builds are however shown below. You will need to push to make this work.

1 - Download

Platform	Format	Link
MacOS Intel x64	dmg	https://spektar.io/download/1.0.13/Spektar_1.0.13.dmg
MacOS Intel x64	dmg	https://spektar.io/download/2.0.44/Spektar_2.0.44.dmg

2 - Install

If you have previous versions installed please uninstall them the usual way.

Installation should be straightforward:

Open the download (e.g. click / double click on the dmg file)
Drag the Spektar icon accross to Applications

3 - Run

Instead of clicking on Spektar icon in finder, you can only run Spektar from terminal. Open the terminal and execute the following command:

$ /Applications/Spektar.app/Contents/MacOS/universalJavaApplicationStub

This will launch the app. If you are prompted about permissions, please grant them.