giac: A general purpose computer algebra system

Description

Giac is a general purpose Computer algebra system by Bernard Parisse.

It consists of:

  • a C++ library (libgiac).

  • a command line interpreter (icas or giac).

  • the build of the FLTK-based GUI (xcas) has been disabled in the spkg-install file.

  • The english documentation will be installed in:

    $SAGE_LOCAL/share/giac/doc/en/cascmd_en/index.html

  • Author’s website with debian, ubuntu, macosx, windows package:

    http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html

  • The Freebsd port is math/giacxcas

Licence

GPLv3+

Note: except the french html documentation which is freely redistributable for non commercial only purposes. This doc has been removed in the released tarball used by Sage.

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Dependencies

  • The Documentation is pre-built, hevea or latex or … are not needed to install the package.

Special Update/Build Instructions

  • To build the gui (xcas), use:

    export GIAC_CONFIGURE="--enable-fltk"

Type

optional

Dependencies

Version Information

package-version.txt:

1.9.0.996+2024-12-06+passagemath

Equivalent System Packages

$ sudo pacman -S giac

$ conda install giac

$ sudo apt-get install libgiac-dev xcas

$ sudo dnf install giac giac-devel

$ sudo pkg install math/giacxcas

$ nix-env -f \'\<nixpkgs\>\' --install --attr giac

$ sudo zypper install giac-devel

$ sudo xbps-install giac-devel

# See https://repology.org/project/giac/versions

If the system package is installed, ./configure will check if it can be used.