Installing RefPkg at home

You need the following files, that are assumed to have been downloaded into a directory C:\Maple\MA305 on your computer. If you chose another directory for your library, substitute its path for C:\Maple\MA305 in all I describe below. It will work, as there are no absolute pathnames. I only describe it for Windows.

RefPkg.tar.gz (17K)
maple.hdb (500K) (optional; this file is made by RefPkg/MakePkg.mpl)

  1. Extract the files in the archive RefPkg.tar.gz using WINZIP. Again, it is assumed that you store the directory and files in C:\Maple\MA305. You now should have the subdirectory C:\Maple\MA305\RefPkg.
  2. Edit C:\Maple\MA305\RefPkg\MakePkg.mpl and change
    libpath := `C:\\Maple/MA305`;
  3. Run a local Maple and read in
    read("C:\\Maple/MA305/RefPkg/MakePkg.mpl");
    For Maple 6, perform these steps with MakePkg6.mpl.
  4. Edit C:\Maple\MA305\RefPkg\InitPkg.mpl and change
    libname := `C:\\Maple/MA305` , libname;
  5. You are done. To initialize the package in a Maple session, do
    read("C:\\Maple/MA305/RefPkg/InitPkg.mpl");
    Try ?Ref and with(RefPkg);.