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E.2 Downloading instructions
SINGULAR is available as binary program for most common hard-
and software platforms. Release versions of SINGULAR can be
downloaded with ftp from our FTP site
or, using your favourite WWW browser, from
Development version can be downloaded from
To download SINGULAR for a Unix platform
Make sure that you have approximately 12MByte of free disk space and follow
these steps.
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You need to download two (archive) files:
Singular-2-0-0-share.tar.gz
- contains architecture independent data like documentation and libraries
(alternatively, you may also download
Singular-2-0-0-share.zip ).
Singular-2-0-0-<uname>.tar.gz
- contains architecture dependent executables, like the SINGULAR
program.
<uname> is a description of the processor and operating
system for which SINGULAR is compiled. Choose one of the following:
ix86-Linux |
PC's running under Linux with libc version 6 (e.g., for SuSe
Linux distirbution version >= 6; RedHat Linux distirbution version >= 5.2).
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ix86-Linux-libc5 |
PC's running under Linux with libc version 5 (if you are not
sure which libc version you have, run ldd /bin/ls ).
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ix86-Win |
PC's running Windows 95/98/NT/2K which have Cygwin version 1.0 (or
higher) already installed. Unless you are familiar with Cygwin, we
recommend that you download one of the self-extracting archives as
described below.
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HPUX-9 |
HP workstations running under HPUX version 9
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HPUX-10 |
HP workstations running under HPUX version 10
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SunOS-5 |
Sun workstations running Solaris version 5
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IRIX-6 |
IRIX workstations running IRIX version 6
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AIX-4 |
AIX workstations running AIX version 4
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Please contact us if
you can not find an appropriate architecture dependent archive.
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Simply change to the directory in which you wish to install
SINGULAR (usually wherever you install 3rd-party software):
SINGULAR specific subdirectories will be created in such a way
that multiple versions and multiple architecture dependent files
of SINGULAR can peaceably coexist under the same /usr/local/
tree.
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Unpack the archives:
| gzip -dc Singular-2-0-0-<uname>.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
gzip -dc Singular-2-0-0-share.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
| If you have downloaded Singular-2-0-0-share.zip ,
unpack with
| unzip -u Singular-2-0-0-share.zip
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After unpacking, see the created file
Singular/2-0-0/INSTALL (which is also located at
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/INSTALL_unix.html
for details on how to finish the installation.
To download SINGULAR for Windows 95/98/NT/2K
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Download one of the following self-extracting archives:
Singular-2-0-0-Compact.exe
- Minimal archive to download. Installs Singular and minimal set of needed
tools/DLLs.
Singular-2-0-0-Typical.exe
- Typical archive to download. Installs Singular and the XEmacs editor to
run ESingular.
Singular-2-0-0-Custom.exe
- Maximal archive to download. Installs Singular, XEmacs, and many Cygwin
development tools (like gcc, gdb, make, perl, etc).
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Double-click (or, execute), the self-extracting archives, and
carefully follow the instructions given there.
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In case of problems, see the created file
etc/INSTALL.txt (which is also located at
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/INSTALL_win.html
for details on how to finish the installation.
To download SINGULAR for the Macintosh
The port of SINGULAR will be aviable soon.
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