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E.5 Macintosh installation instructions

Installation of the provided binaries

Do not use the Finder for the installation!

You need the following two archives:

a:
Singular-3-1-6-share.tar.gz contains architecture independent data like documentation and libraries.
b:
Singular-3-1-6-ix86Mac-darwin.tar.gz contains architecture dependent executables, like the SINGULAR program.

You can obtain these (and other) archives from
 
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/UNIX/.

  1. Within a terminal, change to the directory in which you wish to install SINGULAR (usually wherever you install 3rd-party software), for example:
     
    cd /usr/local
    or
    mkdir install;cd install
    (you do not need root privileges in this case)
    

  2. Unpack the archives:
     
    gzip -dc <path_to>/Singular-3-1-6-ix86Mac-darwin.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
    gzip -dc <path_to>/Singular-3-1-6-share.tar.gz | tar -pxf -
    
  3. add Singular to a directory within your path:
     
    sudo ln -s `pwd`/Singular/3-1-6/ix86Mac-darwin/Singular  /usr/local/bin/Singular
    sudo ln -s `pwd`/Singular/3-1-6/ix86Mac-darwin/ESingular  /usr/local/bin/ESingular
    

Installation via fink (recommended)

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

There are two packages: singular-doc and singular.

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

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

  • alternatively, 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 for you automatically.)


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