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singular 3-1-1

HV · Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:37 pm

Hi,
I've installed singular but when I type "./Singular" I get the error: "cannot execute binary file".

Could you tell what's wrong?

Thanks in advance,
HV

Re: singular 3-1-1

gorzel · Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:09 pm

We don't kown which binary version of Singular you are using
and on what kind of machine you are working.

But as you write, that you entered that ./Singular,
I suppose that you have a Unix/Linux system.

So entering ./Singular supposes that
you are at this moment in the directory where
the Singular-binary is located. Is this the case?

Type ls -l

If you see the Singualar file there, then check whether
it is executeable. This means that the x flags are set.

If not, then enter chmod a+x Singular and
enter ./Singular again.

Note, usually it should be enough just to call Singular
from everywhere, provided you have set properly the variables
$PATH$ (and $SINGULARPATH)$ ( for instance in .bash_login)

Consult for PATH
http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/UNIX/generic_install.html

and for SINGULARPATH
http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/la ... .htm#SEC86

Hope that helps
C. Gorzel