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<h2>System requirements</h2>
- By this time (February 2000), <acronym>deal.II</acronym> has been
+ <p>
+ At present, <acronym>deal.II</acronym> has been
developed and tested on Unix systems only. It can be used positively on
<ul>
- <li>Linux ELF with gcc 2.95.x
- <li>Sun Solaris 2.5 / 2.6 with egcs 1.1.2 and gcc 2.95.x
+ <li>Linux ELF with egcs 1.1.x and gcc 2.95.x;
+ <li>Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6, and 7, with egcs 1.1.x and gcc 2.95.x.
</ul>
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> uses only very few features of an
+ operating system. It should therefore be rather simple to port it
+ to other systems, at least with the compilers stated above.
+ </p>
+ <p>
In order to compile and use the <acronym>deal.II</acronym> library
(and its sub-libraries /base and /lac) you need to have the
following programs installed:
platforms. AVS is a commercial program available for most
Unix flavors.
</ul>
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- little effort to use it on other platforms as well. In that case
- it may be necessary to change some settings in the configure.in
- script or in the file common/Make.global_options.in.
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