1.1 Installing NCAlgebra

1.1.1 Downloading

You can download the lastest version of NCAlgebra from www.math.ucsd.edu/~ncalg.

1.1.2 Unpacking

We provide the files NCAlgebra.zip and a NCAlgebra.tgz, which contain the exact same files in different compact formats. PC and Mac people might prefer to download the NCAlgebra.zip file, while Unix people may like the NCAlgebra.tgz file better. Unpacking any of these files will create a directory ’NC’ which contains all the files necessary to run NCAlgebra.

If you downloaded the NCAlgebra.zip file:

If you downloaded the NCAlgebra.tgz file:

1.1.3 Installing

All that is needed for NCAlgebra to run is that its top directory, the ’NC’ directory, be on Mathematica’s search path. If you are on a unix flavored machine (Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX) then unpacking in your home directory (~) is all you need to do. You may want to try to run NCAlgebra as explained in the next section to see if that works.

If you want to put the files someplace else, all you need to do is to modify Mathematica’s search path. You can do this in one of two ways:

If you are experienced with Mathematica

Or