Linux with ArcGIS Enterprise

Warning

We have not tested MGET on Linux with ArcGIS Enterprise yet, so we cannot say for certain how best to install it. ESRI’s documentation suggests that arcpy on Linux runs within conda. Our best guess is that getting MGET working with ArcGIS Enterprise requires installing MGET’s conda package from conda-forge, known as mget3.

Prerequisites

  • 64-bit x86 processor

  • Recent build of a Debian-based distribution; we have only tested Ubuntu and Mint

You may be able to get MGET working on other processors or distributions if you build MGET from scratch, but we are not currently able to support this. These instructions are written as if you are running an Ubuntu derivative and installing the conda package we built.

Optional software

These are required to run certain parts of MGET. You can wait to install them later if desired. MGET will report detailed error messages when missing optional software is needed.

  • MATLAB Runtime R2026a (free) or the full version of MATLAB R2026a (not free). Either one is OK. These are required for front detection, larval dispersal simulation, and certain interpolation tools. You must install version R2026a; other versions will not work. Multiple versions can be installed at the same time, so if you use a different version of MATLAB for your own work, you can continue to do so, providing you install the R2026a Runtime for MGET’s use.

Step 1: Install Python 3 Runtime for ArcGIS Server on Linux

Install the Python 3 runtime for ArcGIS Server on Linux according to ESRI’s instructions. This may involve installing conda or miniconda first.

Step 2: Install MGET from conda-forge

We assume that in Step 1, you created and activated a conda environment. We also assume that ESRI’s procedure installed GDAL, the GDAL Python bindings, numpy, and the numerous other packages that come with ArcGIS Pro into that environment. Now you can install MGET from conda-forge. From a terminal in which the conda environment is activated, run:

conda install --channel esri --channel conda-forge mget3

In our experience on Windows with ArcGIS Pro, this gets stuck with the message Solving environment for at least 10 minutes, owing to ArcGIS coming with an old version of conda that had a slow dependency solver. If that happens to you and you don’t want to wait, or if conda can’t solve the enviorment, you could try mamba or micromamba instead.

Uninstalling MGET

To uninstall MGET from your conda environment:

conda remove --yes mget3