.. _spkg_lidia:

lidia: A library for computational number theory
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Description
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A library for computational number theory.

Abandoned upstream and has disappeared from the web at TU Darmstadt.

We use as our new upstream a version minimally maintained for the LattE
project.

https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~latte/software/packages/lidia/current/lidia-2.3.0+latte-patches-2014-10-04.tar.gz

License
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lidia is released under the GPL, or so it is claimed. See
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/sage-devel/kTxgPSqrbUM/5Txj3_IKhlQJ
and https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00120.html


Upstream Contact
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Matthias Köppe, UC Davis, CA, USA

Dependencies
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GMP.

Type
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optional


Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    2.3.0+latte-patches-2019-05-02


Equivalent System Packages
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See https://repology.org/project/lidia/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