Cantor
Cantor is a KDE Application aimed to provide a nice Interface for doing Mathematics and Scientific Computing. It doesn't implement its own Computation Logic, but instead is built around different Backends.
Available Backends
- Julia Programming Language: http://julialang.org/
- KAlgebra for Calculation and Plotting: http://edu.kde.org/kalgebra/
- Lua Programming Language: http://lua.org/
- Maxima Computer Algebra System: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
- Octave for Numerical Computation: https://gnu.org/software/octave/
- Python 2 Programming Language: http://python.org/
- Python 3 Programming Language: http://python.org/
- Qalculate Desktop Calculator: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/
- R Project for Statistical Computing: http://r-project.org/
- Sage Mathematics Software: http://sagemath.org/
- Scilab for Numerical Computation: http://scilab.org/
How To Build and Install Cantor
To build and install Cantor, follow the steps below:
cd cantor
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
make
make install or su -c 'make install'
If -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is not used, Cantor will be installed in
default cmake install directory (/usr/local/ usually).
To uninstall the project:
make uninstall or su -c 'make uninstall'