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       It deals with polytopes, polyhedra and fans as well as simplicial complexes, matroids, graphs, tropical hypersurfaces, and other objects. Supported platforms include various flavors of Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS.       It deals with polytopes, polyhedra and fans as well as simplicial complexes, matroids, graphs, tropical hypersurfaces, and other objects. Supported platforms include various flavors of Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS.
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       <b>Hint:</b> polymake currently undergoes a major refactoring of its codebase.        <b>Hint:</b> polymake currently undergoes a major refactoring of its codebase. 
-      One reason is an incompatibility of the current code with perl version 5.38 and its successors.+      One reason are changes in perl version 5.38 and its successors that restrict access to various internal functions.
       This is why polymake temporarily vanished from several Linux distributions.       This is why polymake temporarily vanished from several Linux distributions.
-      Users should download our tarballs with a <a href="/doku.php/install/jll">prebuilt polymake</a> (including a suitable perl).+      Users can download our tarballs with a <a href="/doku.php/install/jll"><img heigth="20" width="20" alt="Download" src="/theme_files/images/download-pm.png"/>prebuilt polymake</a> (including a suitable perl).<br/> 
 +      <b>Update:</b> The latest polymake 4.11 restores compatibility with perl 5.38 but it is unclear if these workarounds will stay possible for future perl releases.
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                <a href="/doku.php/user_guide/extend/extensions">Write your own extension!</a><br>                <a href="/doku.php/user_guide/extend/extensions">Write your own extension!</a><br>
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-      <div class="col">  <h3>The polymake Database</h3> +      <div class="col">  <h3>polyhedral data</h3> 
-               <p>polyDB is a database for objects in discrete geometry and related areas that can be accessed from within polymake.</p>+               <p>polymake comes with its own dataformat and database interface to the polyDB. Additionally there exist a wide variety of other datasets that can be treated by polymake, but do not fit into the polyDB directly</p>
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-               <a href="/doku.php/polydb">polyDB wiki page</a>+               <a href="/doku.php/user_guide/howto/polydb_tutorial">polyDB wiki page</a> 
 +               <br> 
 +               <a href="/doku.php/polydb">polyhedral data overview</a>
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       <h4>Citation</h4>       <h4>Citation</h4>
-      If you are using polymake we would like to ask you to cite at least one of the following papers [<a href="http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~joswig/polymake.bib">BibTeX entries</a>]:+      If you are using polymake we would like to ask you to cite at least one of the following papers [<a href="http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~joswig/polymake.bib">BibTeX entries</a>]:
  
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