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
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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)
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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 -
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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
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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:
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type in a shell:
fink selfupdate
fink install singular singular-doc
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alternatively, using the Fink Commander:
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Start your Fink Commander
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After updating the package list,
there should appear "singular" and "singular-doc" as packages
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Install it from sources (Fink will do that for you automatically.)
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