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brew install gmt v6.6.0_2 LGPL-3.0-or-later

Tools for manipulating and plotting geographic and Cartesian data

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90-day · #2856
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365-day · #2610

Runtime dependencies

fftw gdal geos netcdf openblas pcre2

Build dependencies

cmake

Links

Caveats

GMT needs Ghostscript for the 'psconvert' command to convert PostScript files
to other formats. To use 'psconvert', please 'brew install ghostscript'.

GMT needs FFmpeg for the 'movie' command to make movies in MP4 or WebM format.
If you need this feature, please 'brew install ffmpeg'.

GMT needs GraphicsMagick for the 'movie' command to make animated GIFs.
If you need this feature, please 'brew install graphicsmagick'.
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