On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 03/04/2010 11:14 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: >> >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:03:47 +0100 >> Florent Hivert<florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr> wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Disclaimer: I'm not a debian user and my intend is not to launch a >>> flame nor to disregard the hard work that has been done to have a >>> sage debian package. >>> >>> However, during sage days 20 as well as during my course at the >>> university of Rouen, I've got at least a dozen reports of people >>> trying to install sage with the standard "dpkg -i". Everything, looks >>> fine except that this sage seems to be broken. Maxima simply does not >>> start (just try x+1). I'm quite concerned that debian is a quite wide >>> spread distro, and that for all these guys the image of sage is >>> something huge that simply doesn't work. I was very angry when I >>> heard this very argument from a colleague and two students. If >>> confirmed, couldn't we make an official request to debian that this >>> package is removed from their repositories. This non working sage is >>> a very bad publicity... >> >> +10 >> >> See also: >> >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/t/1f055a381532b667#3542567a19abd5ea >> > > We might make a PPA for Ubuntu. If someone is interested in an easy way to > install Sage via dpkg, that might be the best option at this point. > > I agree that removing sage 3.0.5 (or whatever version it is) from Debian is > probably best, since our first piece of advice to anyone is to uninstall it > and install Sage from scratch. >
Yes, +1 to removing sage 3.0.5 from Debian. But how do we make that happen? -- William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
