Today we needed to install Math::Pari on an Opteron (x86_64) based Debian box at the office. I’m documenting here the trials and tribulations we had to go through to get it to work:

• Downloaded latest Math::Pari tarball from CPAN
• Downloaded pari version 2.1.7 tarball
• Untar Math::Pari
• cd into Math::Pari and run “perl Makefile.PL pari_tgz=/path/to/pari-2.1.7.tgz”
• Ignore all the stupid messages
• run “make realclean”
• cd into the new “pari-2.1.7″ directory that is now inside the Math::Pari dist
• run “./Configure” and then “make gp”
• cd back up a directory to the Math::Pari dist
• run “perl Makefile.PL Configure”
• run “make”
• run “make test”

If all goes well then all your tests should be passing! There may be an easier way to do this, but this is what worked for me.

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Posted at : September 8th, 2009 - 11:25 am
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