Re: GAP: local package installation
Hi !
On 30/07/12 22:36, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
Andreas Tille<andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:04:50PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Since a while, I am trying to install teh GAP SCSCP package on
my Wheezy as local package. I unpacked the tar ball in
/usr/local/share/gap/pkg folder, but I cannot load it from gap:
is there any further action to do besides this unpacking.
Any reason to not simply install the package as it is intended to
be installed via dpkg?
If I've understood the email correctly, Jerome is trying to install
the SCSCP additional package for GAP. As far as I can tell, SCSCP is
not packaged for Debian.
This is correct.
If I'm right, Jerome, you might note that the GAP SCSCP manual
(http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/pkg/scscp/doc/chap2.html) has the
following to say:
To install SCSCP package, put its zoo-archive into the pkg
subdirectory of your GAP4.4 installation and enter the command
unzoo -x scscp-X.X.X.zoo, then the subdirectory scscp (containing
subdirectories doc, lib etc.) will be created in the pkg
subdirectory. Installation using other archive formats is performed
in a similar way.
As such, I suspect you want to untar it in /usr/share/gap/pkg/, which
is the "pkg subdirectory" for Debian's GAP installations. Note: I
haven't tried this.
I have done it, but in the Debian way (local installation must be don in /usr/local to not interfere with
Debian machinery) and the GAP ( http://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap76.html ):
namely, in the /usr/local/share/gap/pkg/ rather than /usr/share/gap/pkg :
I guessed that it can be done because /usr/local/share/gap is one of the GAP root directories.
But, it looks like something else must be done because I can not load the SCSCP package.
Thanks in advance for any hint.
Cheers,
Jerome
Rupert
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