CHIMP: Chimp Hopefully Installs Magma Packages

• Cannot keep up with all the Magma packages on your system?
• and their dependencies?
• Tired of having to manage and include them one by one?

Then look no further, CHIMP will manage and include all your Magma packages for you.

Installing

Clone this repository

Move to the directory where you would like to install CHIMP and clone the repository by doing

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/edgarcosta/CHIMP.git

or if you have a GitHub account

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 git@github.com:edgarcosta/CHIMP.git

Old versions might not support the -j8 option, if that is your case, just ommit it.

Attach the spec file

You only need to attach the CHIMP.spec file, by doing

> AttachSpec("<replace with the installation directory>/CHIMP/CHIMP.spec");

If you want this file to be loaded every time you may add this command to your .magmarc or export MAGMA_USER_SPEC on your shell environment, for example, by adding the following line to .bashrc (or .profile):

export MAGMA_USER_SPEC="<replace with the installation directory>/CHIMP/CHIMP.spec"

Updating

You can fetch the most recent version of all packages by running update.sh or equivalently:

git pull --recurse-submodules=no && git submodule update --init --checkout --recursive --remote --jobs=10

and consider doing a pull request afterwards.

Notes

The packages RiemannSurfaces, hcperiods, echidna and ModFrmGL2 are disabled in CHIMP.spec. See below for more details.

• The packages RiemannSurfaces and hcperiods have been incorporated into Magma since version 2.25. If you are running an older version, please enable these, uncommenting the appropriate lines #+spec -> +spec.
• The package echidna defines an intrinsic MaximalOrder that is broken at the moment and since it overwrites the Magma intrinsic, we disabled the package.
• The package ModFrmGL2 overwrites several Magma intrinsics, and given what happened with echidna we preemptively disabled it.