Hi, On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:05:53PM -0500, aravind b wrote:
I am using quantian *0.7.9.2 *live dvd and i am a total newbie to linux. I am really unable to use ginac. Firstly, locate ginac-config doesnt give any results. whereas locate ginac gives:
*locate: warning: database `/var/cache/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/lib/libginac-1.3.so.2 /usr/lib/libginac-1.3.so.2.1.0 /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/copyright /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/copyright /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/README /usr/share/menu/ginac-tools /usr/share/pixmaps/ginac.xpm /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.shlibs
It looks like libginac-dev package (which contains static library, headers and ginac-config script) is not installed. You can check this with apt-cache policy libginac-dev or dpkg -l libginac-dev
*Guys, please help me out here. How do i link ginac to my C++ code using g++?
There is nothing special about GiNaC, proceed just like with any other C++ library out of there. Best regards, Alexei. -- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.