education/cantor/README.md

0001 ## Cantor
0002
0003 Cantor is a KDE Application aimed to provide a nice Interface
0004 for doing Mathematics and Scientific Computing. It doesn't implement
0005 its own Computation Logic, but instead is built around different
0006 Backends.
0007
0008 ## Available Backends
0009
0010 - Julia Programming Language: http://julialang.org/
0011 - KAlgebra for Calculation and Plotting: http://edu.kde.org/kalgebra/
0012 - Lua Programming Language: http://lua.org/
0013 - Maxima Computer Algebra System: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
0014 - Octave for Numerical Computation: https://gnu.org/software/octave/
0015 - Python 2 Programming Language: http://python.org/
0016 - Python 3 Programming Language: http://python.org/
0017 - Qalculate Desktop Calculator: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/
0018 - R Project for Statistical Computing: http://r-project.org/
0019 - Sage Mathematics Software: http://sagemath.org/
0020 - Scilab for Numerical Computation: http://scilab.org/
0021
0022 ## How To Build and Install Cantor
0023
0024 To build and install Cantor, follow the steps below:
0025
0026 ```
0027 cd cantor
0028 mkdir build
0029 cd build
0030 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
0031 make
0032 make install or su -c 'make install'
0033 ```
0034
0035 If `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` is not used, Cantor will be installed in
0036 default cmake install directory (`/usr/local/` usually).
0037 Also, setting `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` to some unstandart location may happens different problems
0038 with searching Cantor files. So there is a need for passing proper paths for KDE install cmake variables.
0039 For example, if no one Cantor's backends found after installation, KDE_INSTALL_PLUGINDIR path should
0040 be specified on cmake configuration step to some location.
0041
0042 To uninstall the project:
0043
0044 `make uninstall` or `su -c 'make uninstall'`