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Fedora 41: Polymake Important Perl Tool Update FEDORA-2025-9988949ccd

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent upgrade to Polymake boosts capabilities for geometric and combinatorial analysis. Use the dnf package manager for a seamless installation experience.
Updated perl to version 5.40.3 https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Summary

Polymake is a tool to study the combinatorics and the geometry of convex

polytopes and polyhedra. It is also capable of dealing with simplicial

complexes, matroids, polyhedral fans, graphs, tropical objects, and so

forth.

Polymake can use various computational packages if they are installed.

Those available from Fedora are: 4ti2, azove, gfan, latte-integrale,

normaliz, qhull, Singular, TOPCOM, and vinci.

Polymake can interface with various visualization packages if they are

installed. Install one or more of the tools from the following list:

evince, geomview, graphviz, gv, and okular.

Update Information:

Updated perl to version 5.40.3 https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod

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Change Log

* Tue Aug 5 2025 Jitka Plesnikova - 4.13-5 - Rebuild for Perl 5.40.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2386552 - F41FailsToInstall: perl-Devel-Cover https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386552 [ 2 ] Bug #2386553 - F41FailsToInstall: perl-PAR-Packer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386553 [ 3 ] Bug #2386554 - F41FailsToInstall: polymake https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386554

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9988949ccd' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: polymake
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 4.13
Release: 5.fc41
URL: https://polymake.org/doku.php/start
Summary: Algorithms on convex polytopes and polyhedra

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