To install NZMATH, you must have a Python 2.3 or a higher version installed in your computer. If you don't have a copy of Python, please install it first. Python is available from www.python.org .
The next step is to extract NZMATH-0.5.1.tar.gz. You can easily unzip this, depending on your OS. For systems with recent GNU tar, you can do it with a single command:
% tar xf NZMATH-0.5.1.tar.gz
where, % is the command line prompt. Or with standard tar, you can do it as:
% gzip -cd NZMATH-0.5.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
Then, you have a child directory named NZMATH-0.5.1.
The last step is to install NZMATH to the standard python path. Usually, this translates to writing files somewhere under /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, and thus you have to have appropriate write permission. Typically, do as the following:
% cd NZMATH-0.5.1 % su # python setup.py install
These packages may be updated after our releases.
KNOPPIX/Math/ICMS2006 is shipped with NZMATH-0.5.0 installed.
There is a private package for Gentoo Linux by Matsui Tetsushi. Put nzmath-0.5.1.ebuild into your overlay portage tree of category sci-mathematics.
Another way to download the ebuild is to use an overlay 'gentoojp' from Gentoo users group of Japan. He put the ebuild into the overlay, too. You can retrieve the overlay through layman (app-portage/layman).
Then emerge it as usual if you are of ~x86 user. Other arch user have to cast a spell on your /etc/portage or the ebuild. If you succeed to emerge on non-~x86 arch, please post a comment in nzmath page of ebuildjp site.
A NZMATH 0.5.1 application binary for Mac OS X 10.4 / Intel NZMATH-20060225.tar.gz is contributed by Kishi Toshiharu. (For Mac OS X 10.4 / PPC, an application binary of 0.5.0 NZMATH-20060225.tar.gz is also contributed.) You can use it by following instruction: