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E.5 Macintosh installation instructions

Installation of the provided binaries

Do not try to use the Finder for the installation!

After inserting the CD open a terminal (under /Applications/Utilities) and type the following commands (you need an Admin Account):

sudo tar -xvzf /Volumes/CDROM/MAC/OSX/Singular-3-0-3-ppcMac-darwin.tar.gz

sudo tar -xvzf /Volumes/CDROM/MAC/OSX/Singular-3-0-3-share.tar.gz

sudo ln -sf /usr/local/Singular/3-0-3/ppcMac-darwin/Singular /usr/local/bin/Singular-3-0-3

The first two commands unpack the tar.gz files and copy the Singular files (binaries and documentation, libs, etc) to /usr/local/Singular/3-0-3.

The last command creates a link in /usr/local/bin so that you can just type Singular-3-0-3 to run Singular in any terminal.

(The expert might wish to read the INSTALL_unix.html file in the UNIX directory for alternatives).

Installation via fink

Fink is a well-known package format for Mac OS X. (see http://fink.sf.net)

There are two packages: singular-doc and singular.

They are available for 10.3 and 10.4 (in fink called 10.4-transitional).

If you have fink installed, try one of the two possibilities:

  • type in a shell: fink selfupdate
    fink install singular singular-doc

  • (using the Fink Commander):

    • Start your Fink Commander
    • After updating the package list, there should appear "singular" and "singular-doc" as packages
    • Install it from sources (fink will do that automatic for you).


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