| ## E.5 Used environment variables SINGULAR needs to find some files (dynamic modules, libraries, help files). Usually they are found relative to the location of the (main) executable (after following symlinks). This can be changed by setting the following environment variables. SINGULAR_EXECUTABLE (should usually not be set) the complete filename of the main executable, usually derived from the command line (inspecting also PATH, following symlinks). If SINGULAR_EXECUTABLE cannot be found, $prefix/bin/Singular is assumed. For `libSingular`: SINGULAR_EXECUTABLE is set to the argument of `siInit` (it must exist). SINGULAR_BIN_DIR the directory of the main executable, usually derived from $SINGULAR_EXECUTABLE SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR the root of the singular tree, default: $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/.. SINGULAR_DATA_DIR the root of the singular data files, default: $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/../share SINGULARPATH the directories for libraries and optional dynamic modules (separated by `;`), default: $SINGULAR_DATA_DIR/singular/LIB $SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR/share/singular/LIB $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/../share/singular/LIB $SINGULAR_DATA_DIR/factory $SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR/share/factory $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/LIB $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/../factory $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/MOD $SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR/lib/singular/MOD $SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR/libexec/singular/MOD $prefix/lib/singular/MOD $prefix/libexec/singular/MOD $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR SINGULAR_PROCS_DIR the directories for dynamic modules (separated by `;`), default: $SINGULAR_BIN_DIR/MOD $SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR/lib/singular/MOD $SINGULAR_ROOT_DIR/libexec/singular/MOD $prefix/lib/singular/MOD $prefix/libexec/singular/MOD SINGULAR_INFO_FILE `singular.info`, default: $SINGULAR_DATA_DIR/info/singular.info SINGULAR_IDX_FILE the help index, default: $SINGULAR_DATA_DIR/singular/singular.idx SINGULAR_HTML_DIR the directory of the manual as html files, default: $SINGULAR_DATA_DIR/singular/html SINGULAR_URL the URL of the manual, default: https://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/ The effective list of directories/files can be printed by `Singular -v`, see Command line options. Depending on the used functions, these environment variables apply also to `libSingular`.

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