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). Also, setting CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to some unstandart location may happens different problems with searching Cantor files. So there is a need for passing proper paths for KDE install cmake variables. For example, if no one Cantor's backends found after installation, KDE_INSTALL_PLUGINDIR path should be specified on cmake configuration step to some location.

To uninstall the project:

make uninstall or su -c 'make uninstall'