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E.2 Downloading instructions

SINGULAR is available as binary program for most common hard- and software platforms. Instructions to download and install Singular can be found at
 
http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/download.html.

Release versions of SINGULAR are also available from our FTP site
 
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/.

To download SINGULAR for a Unix platform

Make sure that you have approximately 20 MByte of free disk space and follow these steps.

  1. You need to download two (archive) files:
    a:
    Singular-3-0-3-share.tar.gz contains architecture independent data like documentation and libraries
    b:
    Singular-3-0-3-<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 distribution version >= 6; RedHat Linux distribution version >= 5.2).
    ix86-Win PC's running Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP 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.
    SunOS-5 Sun workstations running Solaris version 5
    sparc64-Linux Sun workstations running Linux in 64bit mode
    ix86-SunOS PC/Opteron workstations running Solaris version 5
    ppcMac-darwin ppcMacintosh computers running OS X (10.4)
    x86_64-Linux Opteron workstations running Linux in 64bit mode
    IRIX-6 IRIX workstations running IRIX version 6
    AIX-4 AIX workstations running AIX version 4
    Please contact us if you can not find an appropriate architecture dependent archive.

  2. Simply change to the directory in which you wish to install SINGULAR (usually wherever you install 3rd-party software):
     
    cd /usr/local/	
    

    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.

  3. Unpack the archives:
     
    gzip -dc Singular-3-0-3-<uname>.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
    gzip -dc Singular-3-0-3-share.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
    

  4. After unpacking, see the created file Singular/3-0-3/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/XP

  1. Download one of the following self-extracting archives:
    Singular-3-0-3-Compact.exe
    Minimal archive to download. Installs Singular and minimal set of needed tools/DLLs.
    Singular-3-0-3-Typical.exe
    Typical archive to download. Installs Singular and the XEmacs editor to run ESingular.

  2. Double-click (or, execute), the self-extracting archives, and carefully follow the instructions given there.

  3. 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

We recommend fink to install Singular on a Macintosh running Mac OsX: it supports currently the follwing versions of OsX: 10.4/intel, 10.4/powerpc, 10.4/powerpc (transitional), 10.3. If you want to try to intall a binary package, the Unix installation instructions apply. (See http://fink.sf.net)


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