2010/1/28 Rogério Brito <[email protected]>: > Package: sagemath > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], Dan Drake <[email protected]> > > Hi, there. > > Sorry to be late on this. > > On 01/25/2010 09:52 PM, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >> >> Dan Drake <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The version of Sage in Debian/Ubuntu is hopelessly outdated and right >>> now no one is working on getting new packages prepared. SageTeX will be >>> included in the next Sage released, and we can switch links and so on to >>> the Sage documentation. >> >> i.e., there's a .deb containing an outdated sage system? or there's >> no-one working to update sagetex to current ctan standards? (we know >> that's false.) > > I can't speak about sagetex, but sage in Debian is uninstallable in Debian's > sid distribution. I'm CC'ing the maintainer, via a new bug filed with > bugs.debian.org. > > I tried to install sagemath on my computer, since I needed to do some > lenghty calculations. :-( > > To be fair, it seems that the package needs some work upstream: > > http://bugs.debian.org/535357 > > I don't know if the newer sources fix the problem there, but it would be > really nice to have this fixed before the new releases of Debian/Ubuntu.
I have sagemath installed from packages under Ubuntu-9.10 and the basics are working. The build system seems to be reliable on mainstream platforms, but I'm starting to encounter python packages that won't run on 32-bit hardware, so I guess mainstream now means "core 2 duo". Now that sagetex is removed from TL, I have been installing sagetex using the commandline. This works, but puts everything in one directory: $ sudo sage -i sagetex-2.2.1 [...] creating /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic creating /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying example.pdf -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying example.tex -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying extractsagecode.py -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying makestatic.py -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying scripts.dtx -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying remote-sagetex.dtx -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying remote-sagetex.py -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying py-and-sty.dtx -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying sagetexpackage.dtx -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying sagetexpackage.ins -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying sagetexpackage.pdf -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying sagetexparse.py -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex copying sagetex.sty -> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex It would be better if the docs ended up under /usr/share/texmf/doc (or wherever debian thinks the doc subtree belongs. I would like "texdoc sagetex" to work for users. I also have sagemath installed from sources on other machines -- I prefer this as everything is contained in one top-level directory rather than getting spread around. There are so many irregularly maintained scientific Python packages these days, each insisting on different versions of scipy, etc. that a distro package manager can't cope. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
