On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:56:04PM -0500, R. Keith Dennis wrote: > Hi. It seems that the GAP installation built-in to Ubuntu isn't complete > - not all packages are there (and the directory structure might be a little > different).
This is true. Packaging everything is a lot of work and some packages have problematic licenses or depends on other packages with problematic licenses. > Is there a standard way to add other packages to an Ubuntu installation? Two actually: you can install them in /usr/local/share/gap, /usr/local/lib/gap or in $HOME/gap. > Or is it best to install a complete version in a separate location? I suppose it depends on your need. > I'd appreciate some advice from someone familiar with running GAP under > Ubuntu. I am the maintainer of the Debian packages in question. Ubuntu just import them from Debian. I will try to packages more of them next year. Is there some kind of popularity list for GAP packages ? Cheers, Bill. _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
