On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 1:34 AM Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > What would the current (Spring 2023) easiest instructions be for people to > install sage? I'm asking in support of an install-fest for students, so the > objective is to have easy solutions for giving students access on whatever > platform they have available. > I know about cloud-based solutions, so I'll definitely point them to those. > I'm asking for "the next step up". > > In the install advice I see: > for OSX: > - binary build of SageMath (looks like an excellent solution) > - https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/sage (would be a great place to point > students to, because it's a rich environment for computational software). > However: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/sage seems to indicate that various > architecture-specific builds are woefully outdated: "noarch" seems to be on > point, but the architecture-specific ones seem stuck on 9.2. Am I reading the > info wrong? Obviously I don't want to point people to 9.2 installs. > > for windows: > - OK WSL; that's great. However, it looks like Ubuntu would be the easiest > linux distribution to get and as far as I can see, Ubuntu has 9.5 packaged at > most? That's not great either. > - conda: see above > > for linux: > - same thing. > - conda: see above.
there are linux distributions with up to date Sage: see https://repology.org/project/sagemath/versions ArchLinux https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/sagemath/ Void: https://voidlinux.org/packages/?arch=x86_64&q=sagemath Manjaro; Fedora Rawhide And Gentoo and Nix - although it's trickier. Archlinux may be run in WSL: https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL Fedora as well: https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/install-fedora-on-windows In fact, Microsoft says anything Linux in a Docker can be used on WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/use-custom-distro Also, there is Docker, which can run CoCalc: https://hub.docker.com/r/sagemathinc/cocalc as well as stock SageMath https://hub.docker.com/u/sagemath > > So is building from source the only way nowadays? That's sad. I'm fine doing > that for myself, but for an installfest, that's really not feasible. Probably > some machines will go in thermal meltdown as a result! Or should I just send > them to 9.2 and 9.5 etc. > > Also: if students want to use packages like normaliz, can they install those > on binary installs? When I do it on source-built versions, it triggers > extensive recompilation. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/d1717bce-b359-4f83-902d-68edc2399d2dn%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/CAAWYfq06DYfHiq437VF3ePT0bdLhW7sxHMp6HWAW_VN9mqJg1g%40mail.gmail.com.
