Sorry, in step 5, also installed the cairo development libraries. Joal Heagney
On Aug 14, 1:16 pm, ancienthart <joalheag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've managed to download and install sage 4.5.2 (i386) into an xubuntu > image on virtualbox. This has R with png, jpeg, tiff and cairo support > built in. I built this because it seems that the current vmware image > has been "pruned" a bit too aggressively, and can't connect to the > network from inside the image. Without network, it is too difficult to > rebuild R on top of the binary ubuntu releases. > > Would people be interested in this image? If so, where would I upload > it to? > This would be a "development" image, with all the libraries needed to > replace Sage (binary) with later releases and rebuild R. Thus it would > be a bit bigger than strictly necessary. On the other hand, it would > be much easier for others to update (via the method, steps 7 to 10 > below.) > (If for some reason I can't do it in the future.) > > A basic description of the method I used was: > 1. Install xubuntu onto the virtualbox image. > The default user account, password and computer name are all set to > sage, and automatic logging in enabled. > > 2. Uninstall everything not required. (I have left some extra xorg > drivers installed, as X tends to die when I got too aggressive with > the pruning.) Basically there are only four original menu folders left > once I had finished. > > 3. Update all packages. > 4. Install virtualbox guest additions. > 5. Install build_essentials, the default jre and gfortran. Install > png, jpeg, tiff, tcl, tk, xorg development libraries. > 6. Disable checking of updates. > > 7. Download sage-4.5.2-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686- > Linux.tar.lzma onto the image, and extract it into the /home/sage > directory. Move all files from the created directory into /home/sage. > 8. Delete the now empty directory and the archive. > > 9. Start ./sage and wait until all the first configuration messages > finish. Exit sage. > 10. Then from the command line, run ./sage -f r > > 11. Finally, I set some profile files to add /home/sage to the PATH > variable, and created some extra menu entries and desktop icons. > > Finally, I exported the image and zipped it up. The file is 2.5Gb, and > expands into a 16Gb image when installed in virtualbox. > > Joal Heagney -- 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
