[GAP Forum] Using package genss on Debian

[Alexander Konovalov]

Are IO and GAPDoc packages also installed - they are listed in genss dependencies?

Best wishes,
Alexander


On 3 Jan 2012, at 06:18, Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik wrote:

> On 3 January 2012 13:57, Nicolas FRANCOIS <nicolas.francois at free.fr> wrote:
>> Le Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:37:57 +0800,
>> "Asst. Prof. Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik" <dima at ntu.edu.sg> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hi Nicolas,
>>> 
>>> is /usr/share/gap/pkg/ actually the right directory?
>>> (i.e., do you see there any other pkg's that you know work?)
>>> Does package orb load OK?
>>> Is is a dependency of genss, so one needs to sort it out first.
>> 
>> gap> LoadPackage("orb");
>> fail
>> 
>> So no, it doesn't seem to be the right directory...
>> 
>> How can I ask gap where it searches for its packages ?
> 
> one way is to look at the shell script that starts GAP.
> The packages are loaded from the pkg/ subdirectory at
> GAP_DIR.
> i.e. you can look at the output of
> cat `which gap` | grep GAP_DIR
> 
> From within GAP it seems to be the variable GAP_ROOT_PATHS.
> I.e. you can do
> 
> gap> GAP_ROOT_PATHS;
> [ "/usr/local/src/gap/gap4r4/" ]
> 
> HTH,
> Dmitrii
> 
>> 
>> \bye
>> 
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