[sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-14 Thread Samuel Lelievre
Tue 2018-11-13 17:31:47 UTC+1, James Womack: > I am right to think that installing packages in this way requires > that I have compiled Sage Math from source? In that case, > I may need to switch from the binary version in the Ubuntu > repositories back to compiling from source. If I understand

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-14 Thread TB
On 14/11/2018 11:53, James Womack wrote: Thanks. I actually decided to go ahead and build from source. It's a good excuse to get the latest stable version and avoids permissions issues when adding optional components --- I can install in a directory owned by a normal user. Perhaps in future,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-14 Thread James Womack
Thanks. I actually decided to go ahead and build from source. It's a good excuse to get the latest stable version and avoids permissions issues when adding optional components --- I can install in a directory owned by a normal user. Perhaps in future, optional packages could be made available

Re: [sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-13 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 11:31, James Womack wrote: > Thank you. I suspect you are right. > > I am right to think that installing packages in this way requires that I > have compiled Sage Math from source? In that case, I may need to switch > from the binary version in the Ubuntu repositories back

[sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-13 Thread James Womack
Thank you. I suspect you are right. I am right to think that installing packages in this way requires that I have compiled Sage Math from source? In that case, I may need to switch from the binary version in the Ubuntu repositories back to compiling from source. James On Tuesday, 13

[sage-devel] Re: FriCAS and Sage Math v8.1 Ubuntu package

2018-11-13 Thread John H Palmieri
FriCAS is an optional Sage package, so it is not automatically installed. If you have built from source, you can easily install it (with "sage -i fricas"), and maybe that's what you did before. John On Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 7:22:49 AM UTC-8, James Womack wrote: > > I am using Sage