This package is available at https://gap-packages.github.io/radiroot/ in form of a gzipped tar-archive. For installation instructions see Chapter Reference: Installing a GAP Package in the GAP reference manual. Normally you will unpack the archive in the pkg directory of your GAP version by typing:
bash> tar xfz radiroot-2.9.tar.gz # for the gzipped tar-archive
To use the Radiroot package you have to request it explicitly. This is done by calling
gap> LoadPackage("radiroot"); ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loading RadiRoot 2.9 (Roots of a Polynomial as Radicals) by Andreas Distler (a.distler@tu-bs.de). Homepage: https://gap-packages.github.io/radiroot/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- true
The LoadPackage command is described in Section LoadPackage (Reference: LoadPackage) in the GAP reference manual.
If you want to load the Radiroot package by default, you can put the LoadPackage command into your gaprc file (see Section Reference: The gaprc file in the GAP reference manual).
Once the package is loaded, it is possible to check the correct installation by running the test suite of the package with the command
gap> ReadPackage( "radiroot", "tst/testall.g" );
To use Radiroot the package Alnuth in version 3.0 or higher has to be loaded with its interface fully functional.
In the standard mode a dvi file is created to display the roots of a polynomial. As default the package uses the command latex searched for in your system programs to create the dvi file and the command xdvi to start the dvi viewer. If you can not use this settings you will have to change the function RR_Display in the file Strings.gi in the subdirectory lib of the package.
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