Spitzer Documentation & Tools
GeRT System Requirements

The GeRT requires you to have the following minimum system requirements:

  • A LINUX, Mac, or Solaris stystem
  • tcsh/csh installed
  • Perl installed
  • Standard shared system libraries installed

Versions of the GeRT

We have 4 versions of the GeRT. The online system uses the Solaris--Forte version and all cababilities should work for this version. GNU-compiled versions of the GeRT for Solaris, Linux, and the Mac have also been created. The current GNU versions of the GeRT can carry out science BCD processing, but the calibration IC pipelines do not work on these versions yet. The listing of what works with which version is tabulated below.


GeRT for Solaris -- Forte

Tested Systems:
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
perl, v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris
perl, v5.8.7 built for sun4-solaris-thread-multi

SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
perl, v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris


GeRT for Solaris -- gnu 3.4.5

SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
perl, v5.8.7 built for sun4-solaris-thread-multi


GeRT for LINUX -- gnu 3.4.5

Tested systems:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 7)
Linux 2.4.21-20.ELsmp i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 2)
Linux 2.4.21-15.EL x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
perl, v5.8.0 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi


GeRT for Mac -- gnu 3.4.5

Tested systems:

Mac OSX 10.5 Intel

Mac OSX 10.4.6 PowerPC G5
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.0 RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
perl, v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level

Mac OSX 10.3.9
perl, v5.8.1


GeRT Functionality Table:

Y=yes; it works.
N=no; it does not work in general.

EXPTYPE/ SOL-forte SOL-gnu LINUX MAC
Function(1)(2)(3)(4)
perl-5.6 YNNN
perl-5.8 YYYY
scn YYYY
pht YYYY
pht-FINE YYYY
sed YYYY
tpm YYYY
d2a YYYY
sfl YNNN
pfl YNNN
ffl YNNN
dfl YNNN
tfl YNNN