Picalo is released as open source, which means you can download and use it free of charge, both for personal and commercial purposes. We hope you will submit the analyses as detectlets so others can benefit from your genius, but it is not required that you do so.
If you already have a previous version of Picalo installed, you can install this version directly over it (no uninstall needed). If you do not have rights to install Picalo on your machine, you can install it to a USB drive and run it on any machine you plug into.
Choose the appropriate Picalo installer for your operating system:
| Operating System | Download | Comments |
| Windows XP/Vista/7 | Download Windows Installer | Picalo for Windows works on XP, Vista, and 7. We compile it under 32-bit XP. |
| Mac OS X 10.4+ | Download Disk Image | After downloading, drag the Picalo icon to your Applications folder. |
| .deb-based Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) | Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.picalo.org/download binary/ |
After adding, run “sudo aptitude update”, then “sudo aptitude install picalo”. Alternatively, install the .deb files directly. |
| .rpm-based Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, etc.) | Download RPM Files | Expand the linked tarball, then run “rpm -i” for both RPM files. |
| Source Distribution | Download Tarball | Picalo should work on any operating system with Python and wxPython installed. Just untar and run “python Picalo.pyw” |