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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
 
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/,
or, using your favourite WWW browser, from
 
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/.

To download SINGULAR for a Unix platform

Make sure that you have approximately 12MByte of free disk space and follow these steps.

  1. You need to download two (archive) files:
    Singular-3-0-1-share.tar.gz
    contains architecture independent data like documentation and libraries (alternatively, you may also download Singular-3-0-1-share.zip).
    Singular-3-0-1-<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-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).
    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.
    HPUX-9 HP workstations running under HPUX version 9
    HPUX-10 HP workstations running under HPUX version 10
    SunOS-5 Sun workstations running Solaris version 5
    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-3-0-1-<uname>.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
    gzip -dc Singular-3-0-1-share.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
    
    If you have downloaded Singular-3-0-1-share.zip, unpack with
     
    unzip -u Singular-3-0-1-share.zip
    

  4. After unpacking, see the created file Singular/3-0-1/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-3-0-1-Compact.exe
    Minimal archive to download. Installs Singular and minimal set of needed tools/DLLs.
    Singular-3-0-1-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

The port of SINGULAR will be available soon.


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