Installation of the &Gauss; Package &Gauss; To install this package just extract the package's archive file to the GAP pkg/ directory. The &Gauss; package utilizes some &C;-code by Max Neunhoeffer that has to be compiled before you can load Gauss. To compile the code, first run ./configure. If the package is not installed in the pkg/ subdirectory of &GAP;'s root directory you will need to provide the correct path to the latter. This will create a makefile. Complete the installation of the package by running make. Recompiling the documentation is possible by the command make doc in the Gauss directory, but this should not be necessary.

By default the &Gauss; package is not automatically loaded by &GAP; when it is installed. You must load the package with LoadPackage("Gauss"); before its functions become available. Please, send me an e-mail if you have any questions, remarks, suggestions, etc. concerning &Gauss;. Also, I would like to hear about applications of this package.
Simon Goertzen