Installation of the package is fairly easy. Fetch the latest qaos package at http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~kant/download/gap/qaos.tar.bz2 or via FTP at ftp://ftp.math.tu-berlin.de/pub/algebra/Kant/contrib/gap/
If you have permission to add files to the installation of GAP 4 on your system you may install the qaos package into the pkg/ subdirectory of the GAP installation tree.
shell> cd /path/to/GAP4/installation/tree/ shell> cd pkg/ shell> tar xjf /path/to/qaos.tar.bz2
This yields another subdirectory called qaos/ with all the necessary files.
If you do not have the permission to install the package globally just install it to some private area, for example your home directory.
shell> cd ~ shell> mkdir mygap shell> mkdir mygap/pkg shell> cd mygap/pkg/ shell> tar xjf /path/to/qaos.tar.bz2
Now whenever you start GAP, be sure to pass the mygap/ directory to the package search path of GAP.
shell> gap -l ";$HOME/mygap"
Go to http://curl.haxx.se and fetch the latest release of cURL for your system. Install it. Refer to cURL installation instructions if necessary.
If you have downloaded precompiled binary packages for your system and none of them seem to work, you may also try installing cURL via sources. Just fetch the source archive, unpack it somewhere and say
shell> ./configure && make && make install
Finally, you can test for a successful curl installation by
shell> curl http://curl.haxx.se
If this command spits out lots of HTML into your terminal everything is installed properly. If not, adjust your $PATH variable such that
shell> which curl
finds a valid path to the curl binary.
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