problem with binary fricas in local home dir

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Am I doing something wrong?

I've downloaded the 32bit binary version. Extracted in into /home/me,
added /home/me/usr/local/bin to my PATH variable in .bashrc, edited
/usr/local/lib inside fricas and efricas to /home/me/usr/local/lib.

The fricas script starts nicely, while efricas brings up emacs but
inside emacs it says: Process fricas exited abnormally with code 1.
I've even exported AXIOM inside the efricas script.

After

ln -s /home/me/usr/local/lib/fricas /usr/local/lib

efricas starts OK. Any idea?

That's on Ubuntu 12.10.

Ralf

[Waldek Hebisch]

Have you followed instructions in INSTALL-bin.txt? In particular:

...
The same change is needed in internal 'fricas' script,
which assuming paths like above will be in file

/home/joe/software/fricas/target/x86_64-unknown-linux/fricas


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Waldek Hebisch
heb...@math.uni.wroc.pl

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> Have you followed instructions in INSTALL-bin.txt? In particular:
>
> ...
> The same change is needed in internal 'fricas' script,
> which assuming paths like above will be in file
>
> /home/joe/software/fricas/target/x86_64-unknown-linux/fricas

Well, I've tried to follow
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fricas/files/fricas/1.2.0/Notes-1.2.0.txt
(if this is what you mean by INSTALL-bin.txt). But there it doesn't say
something about "internal".

I think it would be better to explicitly refer to a 'find' command.

$ find usr -type f -name '*fricas'
usr/local/lib/fricas/target/i686-pc-linux/bin/fricas
usr/local/bin/fricas
usr/local/bin/efricas

Anyway, thanks for the hint.

Ralf

[Waldek Hebisch]

>
> Well, I've tried to follow
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/fricas/files/fricas/1.2.0/Notes-1.2.0.txt
> (if this is what you mean by INSTALL-bin.txt). But there it doesn't say
> something about "internal".
>

No, I mean:

http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt

which is a place where you get if you follow documentation
link from the front page.

The 'Notes-1.2.0.txt' contains abbreviated instructions.

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Waldek Hebisch
heb...@math.uni.wroc.pl

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> No, I mean:
>
> http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt
>
> which is a place where you get if you follow documentation
> link from the front page.
>
> The 'Notes-1.2.0.txt' contains abbreviated instructions.

Oh, then I'd argue that "Documentation" is not the right place for this
document. (Or rather "Notes-1.2.0.txt" at least should contain a pointer
to http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt.)

If I want to download and install fricas, I wouldn't search in the
"Documentation" section. Well I would, if Notes-1.2.0.txt weren't there.
But it is and looks quite like something that I would call "installation
instructions".

Just my 2 cents.

Ralf

[Waldek Hebisch]

Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
>
> > No, I mean:
> >
> > http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt
> >
> > which is a place where you get if you follow documentation
> > link from the front page.
> >
> > The 'Notes-1.2.0.txt' contains abbreviated instructions.
>
> Oh, then I'd argue that "Documentation" is not the right place for this
> document. (Or rather "Notes-1.2.0.txt" at least should contain a pointer
> to http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt.)

I agree with the or. But I am not sure which is best solution.
ATM I am tempted to delete most instructions from Notes-1.2.0.txt
and replace them with pointer to INSTALL-bin.txt. AFAICS duplication
between Notes-1.2.0.txt and INSTALL-bin.txt contributed to fact
that INSTALL-bin.txt got corrected but Notes-1.2.0.txt were not.

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Waldek Hebisch
heb...@math.uni.wroc.pl

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> ATM I am tempted to delete most instructions from Notes-1.2.0.txt
> and replace them with pointer to INSTALL-bin.txt.

I'm fine with that.

I think, it's not so important, where exactly the information is, but
that one is easily finding it in case one needs it. And duplication of
information is always bad because that easily gets out of sync.

Ralf