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This is a page on GAP 3, which is still available, but no longer supported. The present version is GAP 4  (See  Status of GAP 3).

Download GAP 3

First of all read the page Status of GAP 3.

The latest version is GAP 3.4.4. of April 1997.
There are 13 bugfixes for this version. Be sure to have a look on these as well.

A simplified GAP 3.4.4 Installation:

GAP 3 for Linux (i686 architecture) and Windows.

Frank Lübeck has created an executable of the currently released version of GAP 3.4.4 for Linux on i686 machines. See his page

       http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Frank.Luebeck/gap/GAP3/

The executable is produced with some optimized compiler settings and is statically linked. It can use up to 2 GB of memory on his machine.

His archive includes in addition to the main archive gap3r4p4.zoo from the GAP site: the content of all bugfix files, the optimized Linux executable gap3r4p4/bin/gap-static-linux-i686, the Windows executable gap3r4p4/bin/gapdjg.exe, precompiled manuals gap3r4p4/doc/manual.dvi and gap3r4p4/doc/manual.pdf, newer versions of some share packages (Specht, MeatAxe, Sisyphos), and two additional packages (AREP, and Monoid). Some file permissions were changed to more reasonable values.

Another distribution of GAP 3.4.4 is provided by Jean Michel. In that version packages whose functionality is available in GAP 4 are stripped off, and newer versions of some remaining packages (in particular CHEVIE) are included. Go to

       https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~jean.michel/gap3/

to download that version.

Standard Distribution:

There is a README file that explains how to get and to install GAP 3.

The collection of files described below on this page provides archives for different types of installations.

You will first have to create a GAP home directory to which all archives expand. Go to this directory and expand the files there.

If you have problems downloading zoo files read the page Loading zoo files.

I)  All-in-one files

Note that some of these files are rather large. You will find suitable extractor programs below.

gap3r4p4.zoo
Omnibus edition. Contains everything except MAC specific files and binaries.
gappc344.zoo
PC Omnibus edition. Contains everything usable on a PC under DOS/Windows. (Excludes pkgbin344, includes PC binary).
gapmac344.zoo
MAC Omnibus edition. Contains everything usable on a Macintosh. (Excludes pkgbin344). You will still have to get the MAC binaries

II)  Share Package archives

Sizes given exclude binaries. Those packages marked with a * provide functionality without further binaries and thus are usable on PC or MAC systems as well.

anupq344.zoo
ANU p-Quotient (1.3M)
anusq344.zoo
ANU Soluble quotient (.7M)
arep-1.0.tar.gz
AREP (Constructive representation theory)
autag344.zoo *
Automorphism of AgGroups (.2M)
chevie344.zoo *
Chevalley groups (1.4M)
cohomolo344.zoo
Cohomology (.7M)
cryst344.zoo *
Crystallographic groups (.4M)
dce344.zoo *
Double coset enumerator (.3M)
gliss344.zoo *
Nearrings (13M)
grape344.zoo *
Graphs and Geometries (1.1M)
grim344.zoo *
Integral matrices (39k)
guava344.zoo *
Codes (3M)
kbmag344.zoo
Knuth-Bendix/Automatic groups (1M)
matrix344.zoo *
Matrix group recognition (1.4M)
meataxe-new.zoo
C-MeatAxe (1.4M)
monoid.zoo *
Monoid (100k)
nq344.zoo
Nilpotent quotient (.2M)
pcqa344.zoo
Policyclic quotient (.6M)
sisyphos-new.zoo
Group rings of p-groups (1.6M) This is a newer version than the originally released one, that fixes a bug in the isomorphism test.
specht-new.zoo *
Decomposition matrices of Hecke algebras and symmetric groups. (.6M)
ve344.zoo
Module enumerator (.6M)
xgap344.zoo
Graphical interface (1.2M)
xmod344.zoo *
Crossed modules (1.8M)

III)  Unzoo and precompiled binaries

Unzoo source cod

unzoo.c
Source for 'unzoo' to uncompress the 'zoo' archives. You will have to #define which type of system you are using.

PC binaries for Windows:

unzoo.exe
wbin3.zoo
GAP binary (compressed)
README.WIN
Windows-Specific installation documentation

Macintosh binaries

bin3r4p4-68k.sit
Binaries for 68k MACs
bin3r4p4-PPC.sit
Binaries for PowerMACs
INSTALL-MAC.TXT
MAC-Specific installation documentation

Unix binaries

gap-ibm-i386-linux-gcc.zoo