Download / Install¶

Note

If you experience any problems installing or crashes while running SpinDrops, please let us know by email at help@spindrops.org. Include your operating system, the SpinDrops version, what you were doing when the problem appeared, and any other information you can think of that will help us reproduce the problem, thanks!

SpinDrops Installers¶

Current Release¶

Version 2.5.0-beta1

Android Notes	Coming Soon!
iOS Notes	Coming Soon!
macOS Notes	macOS Installer (App Store: Coming Soon!)
Linux Notes	Linux RPM Package Linux .deb Package Linux Tarball
in-Browser Notes	No installation necessary! Click here to open SpinDrops v2.5.0-beta1 in a new window.
MSWindows Notes	Windows Installer

The ChangeLog has a history of updates and bug fixes.

Android Notes¶

SpinDrops for Android is coming soon.

iOS Notes¶

SpinDrops for iOS is coming soon.

macOS Notes¶

When installing from the .dmg, there is a SpinDrops binary and a link to your Mac’s Applications folder. To install SpinDrops, open the .dmg and drag the SpinDrops icon into the Applications folder. The SpinDrops application binary is not cryptographically signed, so the first time it is run, macOS may not allow it to run. In order to bypass Apple’s anti-trojan protection, Right-click the SpinDrops icon and select Open from the menu.

For lazy command line jockeys who just want the latest version installed in /Applications:

curl -LO https://spindrops.org/downloads/SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1.dmg
sudo hdiutil attach SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1.dmg
sudo rm -rf /Applications/SpinDrops.app
sudo cp -R /Volumes/SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1/SpinDrops.app /Applications
sudo hdiutil unmount /Volumes/SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1

Linux Notes¶

There is an RPM, a .deb, and a .tar.gz containing binaries built on a current Ubuntu LTS release.

When installing using the .rpm, the SpinDrops binary executable will be by default installed as /opt/SpinDrops/SpinDrops .

Copy/paste one liners for easy installation from the command line:

RedHat / CentOS / Fedora¶

sudo dnf install https://spindrops.org/downloads/SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1-1.x86_64.rpm
PATH=${PATH}:/opt/SpinDrops

Debian / Ubuntu / Mint¶

curl -sLO https://spindrops.org/downloads/SpinDrops_2.5.0-beta1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./SpinDrops_2.5.0-beta1_amd64.deb
PATH=${PATH}:/opt/SpinDrops

From Tarball¶

curl -sLO https://spindrops.org/downloads/SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1.x86_64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzv -C /opt -f SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1.x86_64.tar.gz
sudo mv /opt/SpinDrops-2.5.0-beta1.x86_64 /opt/SpinDrops
PATH=${PATH}:/opt/SpinDrops

in-Browser Notes¶

Your browser must support WebGL, as all current browsers do.

The web version of SpinDrops saves its state (your edited sequences, local preferences, etc…) in your web browser’s local storage. Because of this, private browsing mode on some browsers may prevent SpinDrops from working. Also, sometimes this state can become corrupted. To force a reset of the preferences to a known state, simply add &--reset to the end of the url, such as here: Click here to reset SpinDrops-web Preferences. (https://storage.googleapis.com/web.spindrops.org/2.5.0-beta1/SpinDrops.html?--reset).

If resetting the preferences doesn’t work, try clearing your browser’s cache and reloading. SpinDrops stores its preferences and User Sequences locally in your browser’s IndexedDB, so if the RESET link above and clearing the cache don’t work, try also clearing your browser’s local “IndexedDB” (Warning: this will delete any custom pulse sequences you had saved within the web app.)

MSWindows Notes¶

Older versions of Microsoft Windows may be missing dlls necessary for running SpinDrops. The required dlls are part of the OS (since 2015), and are also installed with updates, but may be missing from older Windows versions. They are available from Microsoft as a free download, and you can find them by googling “Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015” :

https://www.google.com/search?q=Visual+C%2B%2B+Redistributable+for+Visual+Studio+2015

Please do contact us if you have any problems using SpinDrops on Windows, and we’ll do our best to help out!

File	Description
https://spindrops.org/downloads/SpinDrops1.2.2_Tutorial.pdf	Tutorial for the 1.2.2 version of SpinDrops for iOS.
https://spindrops.org/downloads/PhaseCyclingTutorial_Wengert.pdf	Phase Cycling Tutorial using SpinDrops by Simon Wengert