=====>>> BETA level interface to version 2.0 <<<======= a) Should be installed inside or near pari-2.* source directory. b) Patches to PARI (in `patches11', or 'patch12', etc. depending on the version of PARI) should be applied (or this may be done automatically). c) paricfg.h should be created beforehand in pari-2,* build directory (run configure to do this) (or this may be done automatically). d) We skip "compatibility" tests, and do not support "compatibility" mode. ================================================================ Next paragraph is an excerpt from documentation inside Pari.pm: Package Math::Pari is a Perl interface to famous library PARI for numerical/scientific/number-theoretic calculations. It allows use of most PARI functions (>500) as Perl functions, and (almost) seamless merging of PARI and Perl data. Documentation to this package is contained inside Pari.pm. After installing it is accessible by standard means, like perldoc Math::Pari man Math::Pari and possibly in other forms particular for your system. A copy of documentation of the PARI library in POD format is provided as well, access it as Math::libPARI: perldoc Math::libPARI man Math::libPARI For long instructions to install Math::Pari see file INSTALL. Short instructions work if you have PARI build directory, or have Net::FTP a) Get the latest version of Math::Pari similar to perl -MCPAN -e shell CPAN> test Math::Pari or manually FTP the file, extract it, and try to build tar -zxfv Math-Pari-2.001200.tar.gz cd Math-Pari-2.001200 perl Makefile.PL make test b) If the necessary patches were not applied to the latest version of PARI yet, and the above step did not auto-apply the patches, you need to manually apply the patches (see INSTALL) in the build directory after "make test" fails, and redo make test c) make install will finish the installation (lowercase test scripts translate native PARI tests from GP syntax to Perl syntax. You can get a better understanding of these translations by running the tests manually, as in perl t/all.t after install, or perl -Mblib t/all.t before install.) The version 2.001104 was tested with OS/2 and Solaris, the versions 2.001200 and 2.001300 with Solaris. They were tested with the patched versions 2.0.11/2.0.12/2.0.13 of the PARI library. The version 2.001501 was tested with Linux RedHat 6.0 and Solaris