RedHat

The Macaulay 2 releases for Scientific Linux are reported to work under Red Hat, so try those first. The version numbers correspond this way: "Scientific Linux 5.3" is based on "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 3".

Eventually we will arrange for automatic installation of Macaulay 2 on Red Hat systems, and the method will be explained here.

For now you may install the package files manually (they all have names of the form *.rpm), but starting with version 1.0, they come in pairs, one containing the architecture dependent files (in this directory), and one containing the architecture independent files and having "common" in the name. The latter can be obtained in Common/.

Here are sample commands for manually installing Macaulay2 from downloaded *.rpm files. (Replace "1.1" by the current version number, "x86_64" by your architecture, and "RedHatEnterprise-4" by the issue.)

        sudo rpm -i -v Macaulay2-1.1-common.rpm
        sudo rpm -i -v Macaulay2-1.1-x86_64-Linux-RedHatEnterprise-4.rpm

Here are sample commands for manually uninstalling Macaulay2. (Replace "1.1" by the current version number.)

	sudo rpm -e -v Macaulay2-1.1
	sudo rpm -e -v Macaulay2-common-1.1