System Requirements 
Present size of Ferret: 24 KB (Ferret.tar.gz, compressed format) 
Present size of Ferret: 224 KB in extracted form 
Perl version 5.6 or higher

Minimum Configuration -
·32 MB RAM 
·Amount of disk space required for Ferret: 1000 KB
·Total Disk space: 10 MB
·Perl version 5.6 and higher
·All Unix/Linux based operating systems:
- Solaris Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9
- HP-UX (11.0, 11i, 11i v. 1.x, etc.)
- BSD systems : FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
- GNU/Linux distributions like Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Caldera, Corel and Debian