[Axiom-developer] RE: Polymake needs permission to write a file

[Martin Rubey]

Page, Bill writes:

 > I don't think so. The developers only provide one rpm file for linux
 > systems.

No: Quoting http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake/download_choice.html

Binary packages for RedHat, SuSE, and other Linux distributions with RPM-based
software management

End user package
 polymake-2.1.0-2.athlon.rpm 10046242 20:32 Jan 21 2005

polymake-2.1.0-2.i586.rpm 8716518 19:53 Jan 21 2005

polymake-2.1.0-2.i686.rpm 9995110 21:11 Jan 21 2005

Developer package 
polymake-devel-2.1.0-2.athlon.rpm 878609 20:32 Jan 21 2005

polymake-devel-2.1.0-2.i586.rpm 934404 19:53 Jan 21 2005

polymake-devel-2.1.0-2.i686.rpm 877174 21:11 Jan 21 2005


These packages were compiled under SuSE 9.0. They should fit the recent
versions of other Linux distributions too.

In older distributions the RPM installation might fail complaining about
unresolved dependences on GLIBC or something similar. In this unfortunate case
you will have to take the source RPM and recompile it: rpm --rebuild
polymake-*.src.rpm or rpmbuild --rebuild polymake-*.src.rpm .

Packages are compiled for various CPU models. The i586 variant is a generic
Pentium architecture used in SuSE by default, i586 is optimized for Pentium 4,
and athlon for AMD Athlon XP. Be sure to pick the package most suitable to your
hardware.