Installing SPRING2

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This page covers installing SPRING2 from prebuilt release artifacts. If you want to compile from source instead, see Building SPRING2.

Download Releases

Download platform artifacts from the GitHub releases page:

Available release artifacts currently include:

  • Linux AppImages for x86_64 and ARM64
  • macOS .app bundles packaged as zip archives for arm64 and x86_64
  • Windows standalone executables for x86_64 and ARM64

Conda (bioconda)

If you are using conda environments, install SPRING2 with:

conda install -c bioconda spring2

Optional: create a dedicated environment first.

conda create -n spring2-env -c bioconda spring2
conda activate spring2-env
spring2 --version

Linux

Linux releases provide portable AppImages.

AppImage

  1. Download the AppImage matching your architecture.
  2. Mark it executable.
  3. Run it directly.

Example:

chmod +x spring2-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./spring2-linux-x86_64.AppImage --version

If you prefer, you can keep the AppImage in a tools directory and invoke it from there.

macOS

macOS releases provide .app bundles packaged as zip archives per architecture.

  • Download the zip for your architecture:

    • spring2-macos-arm64.app.zip
    • spring2-macos-x86_64.app.zip

  • Extract the zip file.

  • Run SPRING2 from Terminal:

    ./SPRING2.app/Contents/MacOS/spring2 --version

If you prefer, move SPRING2.app to /Applications and invoke it from there.

Windows

Windows releases provide standalone executables per architecture.

  1. Download the executable for your architecture:

    • spring2-windows-x86_64.exe
    • spring2-windows-arm64.exe

  2. Rename to spring2.exe (optional) and place it in a folder on your PATH.

  3. Open a new terminal and run:

    spring2 --version