ratpoints: Find rational points on hyperelliptic curves¶
Description¶
Michael Stoll’s program which searches for rational points on hyperelliptic curves.
NOTE: the ratpoints package has been assimilated by PARI/GP. Therefore, this package (as Sage package) is deprecated. In the future, it will be removed from Sage.
Upstream Contact¶
Author: Michael Stoll
Dependencies¶
GMP/MPIR
(GNU) patch
Special Update/Build Instructions¶
Note on SSE2 instructions¶
On several architectures, the SSE2 instructions used by ratpoints cause compiler errors. In the case that ratpoints fails to build with SSE2 instructions enabled, the build is repeated with SSE2 disabled.
Type¶
standard
Version Information¶
package-version.txt:
2.1.3.p5
Equivalent System Packages¶
arch:
$ sudo pacman -S ratpoints
conda:
$ conda install ratpoints
Debian/Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install ratpoints
nix:
$ nix-env --install ratpoints
See https://repology.org/project/ratpoints/versions
However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package; see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27330