The GAP 4 package `qaos-gap' ============================ Prerequisites ============= - get and install curl Installing this package ======================= This latest version of this package is available at http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~kant/download/gap/qaos.tar.bz2 or fetch it via FTP at ftp://ftp.math.tu-berlin.de/pub/algebra/Kant/contrib/gap/ There are two ways of installing the package. If you have permission to add files to the installation of GAP 4 on your system you may install the qaos-gap package into the pkg/ subdirectory of the GAP installation tree. -- Installation in the GAP 4 pkg subdirectory on a Unix system. We assume that the archive file qaos-gap.tar.bz2 or qaos-gap.tar is present in pkg and that the current directory is pkg. All that needs to be done is to unpack the archive. bash> tar xjf qaos.tar.bz2 # for the gzipped tar-archive bash> gap4 [... startup messages ...] gap> RequirePackage("qaos"); true gap> -- Installation in a private directory We assume that we are in a directory called which also contains the archive file of the package. bash> mkdir pkg bash> cd pkg/ bash> tar xjf ../qaos.tar.bz2 When you start GAP 4 you have to use the option -l in the following manner: gap4 -l ";" Note the semicolon! It is imortant to have it there. The effect is that the directory is appended to the list of directories which GAP searches for input data. Note that you do not say /pkg.