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Download the Parma Polyhedra Library

From this page you can access the Parma Polyhedra Library resources (sources, binaries and more).


Get It!

Binary distributions

Below is a list of the available PPL binary distributions.

ArchLinux Debian Fedora Gentoo openSUSE Ubuntu Fink
ArchLinux x86_64
ArchLinux i686
sid 8
9
10
11
12
Gentoo 10.3
11.0
11.1
Intrepid
Jaunty
Fink

Source distributions

PPL source distributions can be downloaded via FTP or HTTP.

Archive Format Download protocols
gzip tar archive ftp http
bzip2 tar archive ftp http
ZIP archive ftp http


Requirements for Users and Developers of the PPL

Before downloading, please familiarize yourself with the installation requirements and portability issues. If you plan to compile the library from sources, please take into account that the PPL follows the usual GNU-style `configure; make; make install' installation paradigm. Generic installation instructions can be found in the Free Software Foundation's INSTALL document. See the file README.configure (also contained in all distributions) for configuration information specific to the PPL. The PPL makefiles follow the GNU standard, in particular for what concerns the standard targets.


Notes for Non-Experts

Package Verification

For security, the distributed packages are fingerprinted with md5sum and digitally signed with
GPG, the GNU Privacy Guard. The digital signature is by "Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it>", whose public key can be found at
http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/pgp_public_key
You may import the key into your keyring by saving it in a file, and then issuing the command
gpg --import key-file

Verifying RPM Packages

After importing the GPG key, you can verify RPM packages with the command
rpm --checksig package-file.rpm
If you only wish to check that the package is a valid RPM package and that it has not been corrupted, examine only the MD5 fingerprint with the command
rpm --checksig --nosignature package-file.rpm

Verifying Other Files

In our distribution areas, a file called filename.sign contains the digital signature for filename. In order to verify the signature you can issue the command
gpg --verify filename.sign filename
For those only wishing to verify that files have not been corrupted or tampered with, we also provide files called MD5SUMS containing MD5 fingerprints. The contents of these files is something like
150b6e9bc68b25923d32247031447e0d  filename1
5a46c39de027a658c15ed03a7c308e81  filename2
e82a866bb00edf31b2282747354f459c  filename3
You may check the fingerprint of, say, filename2 by issuing the command
md5sum filename2
and making sure the output is
5a46c39de027a658c15ed03a7c308e81  filename2
Alternatively, you may check the fingerprints of several files at once with the command
md5sum --check MD5SUMS
possibly ignoring the errors concerning the files you did not download. For example, if you downloaded filename1 and filename2 but not filename3, everything is fine if your output is something like
filename1: OK
filename2: OK
md5sum: filename3: No such file or directory
filename3: FAILED open or read
md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 3 listed files could not be read
Contrast this with the situation where filename3 exists but is corrupted. Expect your output to look like
filename1: OK
filename2: OK
filename3: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 3 computed checksums did NOT match

Handling .bz2 Files

The .bz2 extension belongs to the
bzip2 compression utility (the successor of good old gzip). You may unpack file.tar.bz2 directly using the commands
tar xjf file.tar.bz2
(new versions of tar), or
tar xIf file.tar.bz2
(older versions of tar), or
bzip2 -c file.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
(all versions of tar).

[Page last updated on November 26, 2009, 14:19:25.]

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