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Re: [Axiom-developer] Installing AXIOM on Mandrake
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Camm Maguire |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Installing AXIOM on Mandrake |
Date: |
02 Nov 2004 16:08:55 -0500 |
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Greetings!
Bertfried Fauser <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed AXIOM on a mandrake linux for my friend Rafal.
> This was a challenge and he would not have succeded to do so.
>
> Mandrake does not install by defult very much packages which are _needed_
> to compile AXIOM, this starts with the gcc compiler(!), latex, X11
> developer files, binutils, m4 preprocessor, etc.
> It took quite a while for a non expert as I am to notice in which
> package libbdf.a etc are located. Hence my question:
> Would it be possible to put on the AXIOM homepage a list with
> _all_ packages which are needed for compilation of AXIOM are listed.
> (When AXIOM goes into an RPM (apt) archive this might be needed anyway)
>
I think the union of:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/gcl
and
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/axiom
should do the trick.
Take care,
> Furthermore, since we tried to install from a Win machine (linux
> box had no internet connection) it was quite hard to check out the files
> from the cvs. (I did it using my linux book in Germany and ftp the file to
> the Win box). Would it be difficult to produce daily an
> AXIOM-...-version.tgz file in the download area of teh savannah server.
> Perhaps on a weekly basis even a compiled binary file for a standard linux
> box? This would help cvs dummies -as I am at least under Windows- to cope
> with the download.
>
> Sorry to report this, but my effort to advertise AXIOM was kicked
> off by showing how difficult the installation was (for me, on a linux I
> donĀ“t know well). The current state is not an ivitation to AXIOM for users
> with few linux knowledge, and we would like to advertise AXIOM isnt it?
>
> ciao
> BF.
>
> % PD Dr Bertfried Fauser
> % Institution: Max Planck Institut for Math, Leipzig
> <http://www.mis.mpg.de>
> % Privat Docent: University of Konstanz, Phys Dept
> <http://www.uni-konstanz.de>
> % contact|->URL : http://clifford.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~fauser/
> % Phone : Leipzig +49 341 9959 735 Konstanz +49 7531 693491
>
>
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