In the October 2014 issue of `Linux Format' there are instructions on how to install an independent Linux distribution on an android phone, without doing a full scale root. If this works (I haven't tried it myself) it should mean that one can run GAP within one's own Linux (not the android incarnation) on the phone.
Kirill On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:19:31AM +0100, John McDermott wrote: > Apologies for the delay to Bill's message. I missed it during a sweep of > mails for moderation done just after it sent and just discovered it today. > > John > > > On 10 Sep 2014, at 17:40, Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux.fr> > wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:05:30PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Ahmet Arıkan wrote: > >> > >>> Dear forum, > >>> > >>> My question may be asked before. I wonder if GAP can be installed on > >>> ipad? If possible how? > >> > >> It is surely possible. The ipad runs a "unix like" system on an ARM > >> cpu, and it is possible to run a shell on it. As far as I know, > >> noone has done this (at least not publicly), so there is no > >> installation package, or simple instructions how to do this, though. > > > > For what is worth, this how it was done for PARI/GP so maybe a similar > > procedure could work with GAP (both being math programs running in a > > terminal > > in a unix environment). > > > > <http://sagemath.blogspot.it/2010/06/pari-on-ipad-component-of-sage.html> > > > > Note that this is dated June 2010 and that the first step is to jailbreak > > your > > phone. > > > > Cheers, > > Bill. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Forum mailing list > > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum > _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
