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E.4 Windows installation instructions

For the impatient (single file download):

  • If you have Cygwin installed, please read the information below.
  • Execute the self-extracting installation archive and carefully follow the instructions given there. Setup will analyze your system, create the corresponding configuration and give you further tips regarding the installation process. (see http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/WINDOWS/pfwinstall.html)
  • In case of troubles, see the installed file /etc/INSTALL or visit Singular Forum at http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/forum.

Installation preliminaries

SINGULAR is a CYGWIN package on MS Windows. You can install it with the Cygwin Installer (Net Install): For a minimal installation, the following set of packages is recommended to be chosen when the Cygwin package browser comes up:

  • - singular-base, singular-share, singular-help, singular-icons;
  • - rxvt.
These packages can be complemented by the following, in order to install a full version supporting - among other additional features - the use of SINGULAR under (x)emacs and SINGULAR Surf:
  • - singular-surf,
  • - emacs-X11, xemacs-sumo,
  • - xorg-server, xinit.

Complete installation information for Windows is available at
 
http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/WINDOWS/index.html.

For any other troubles, please send an email to singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de and include the header which is displayed by starting up SINGULAR with the -v option, and a description of your machine and operating system.


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