Note that we already generate this "apt-get install" line for the documentation (see https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#linux-recommended-installation). Unfortunately the writing in this section of the manual is not very good and would need help to be improved. This could be done as part of https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33662 -- help needed!
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 11:37:14 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 10:14:57 AM UTC-7 Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > >> Le mardi 26 avril 2022 à 14:22:28 UTC+2, seb....@gmail.com a écrit : >> >>> several Linux distributions carry reasonably up to date binary Sage >>> installations (and these can be installed on various VMs, e.g. on Windows’ >>> WSL, ChromeOS’ Crostini, etc) >>> >>> For example current LinuxMint and WSL are both on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS which >>> gives you Sage 9.0 (as in the example I’ve mentioned above). To get Sage >>> 9.5 you need Ubuntu 22.04 (I guess not very widespread at the moment). My >>> point is the following: until we discontinued the binary tarballs, the >>> straight ahead way to a Sage installation for Ubuntu systems lead you to >>> the current release. This is broken, now. >>> >> To avoid repeating the same advice to people asking how to install Sage >> 9.5 in Ubuntu in a *simple* way, I've prepared the following page, which >> has been improved by Samuel Lelièvre: >> [1] https://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/install_ubuntu.html >> I've already got testimony of persons not familiar with bash commands >> (not speaking about building from source) who could succeed in installing >> Sage 9.5 in Ubuntu 20.04 by following these simple instructions. Of course, >> this is somehow redundant with Sage's installation guide or README.md, but >> this provides the minimal required steps, without having to read the full >> installation guide. >> > > These are nice instructions. As they are version-specific and need to be > updated after a release is made (because it's referring to the distribution > packaging of the same version!), it could be added to the ReleaseTour for > the version. > ( > https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.5#Availability_as_binaries_and_in_distributions > ) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/faf9ec30-7a02-4816-8697-ecd400bc379dn%40googlegroups.com.
