Compiling atlas and realex for linux

Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations

These pages are under construction, May 2012

The readline package

The software uses the readline package to provide very useful tools available, including CTRL-p for previous line, tab completion, etc.

To compile atlas with readline you need the development version of readline. To install this under Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu), do

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

On redhat-like systems do

sudo yum install libreadline-dev

This line in the makefile tells the software where to find the readline library:

rlincludes = -lreadline -lcurses

On some systems it is necessary to replace -lcurses with -lncurses.

If all else fails you can compile readline using:

make readline=false