README.pkg

Debian (and Debian based Operating Systems)
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The Debian [1] package for Singular is currently maintained by the Debian Math Team [2,3].

[1] https://www.debian.org/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Math
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/singular

Installation (with appropriate privileges):

apt install singular

Fedora (and RPM based Operating Systems)
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To build Singular rpm packages run (with 4.0.0 replaced by the respective Singular version):
$ rpmbuild -tb singular-4.0.0.tar.gz

To install the newly created packages run (as superuser, with x86_64 replaced by your architecture and 4.0.0 by the respective Singular version):
$ cd `rpm --eval '%{_topdir}'`/RPMS
$ rpm -i x86_64/singular-4.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm noarch/singular-common-4.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

Gentoo
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install from the main tree:

emerge singular

is sufficient.