Hi, did you have a look at this page ?
http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html There are indications for debian derivatives (e.g. Mint, Ubuntu) and redhat derivatives, which should cover a large part of the 10 most popular distros. Ciao, Thierry On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 10:08:21AM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > I'm trying to migrate away from Solaris to Linux, given the takeover by > Oracle. I decided to install the latest Debian (8.5 == Jessie) , and Sage. > I have not succeeded yet, but some of the issues seem to be ones where the > installation could be made easier for popular linux distributions. > > First configure would not run, with some crpytic message about some > library not being sane. A Google found i needed to install g++. > > Next I got a warnings that Latex is not present. I know this is not so > important, but I thought I'd install a Debian package for latex. > Unfortunately a search on Latex brings up many tens (perhaps >100) > packages. It is far from clear what package(s) is necessary. > > It might be worth the configure script reporting how to install Latex and > perhaps other missing bits. Something like > > ======= > You can get the Latex source from http://www.where-latex-is.org > > > On Debian execute: # apt-get install $whatever_package > On Suse # $whatever_command_installs_latex > On Mint # $whatever_command_installs_latex > ======== > > do this for the 5-10 most popular distributions, based on distrowatch > https://distrowatch.com/ or similar. > > I worked out how to use Mercurial when Sage used that, now I note it has > gone to git, I really don't have enough time to learn something else. > > PS, I found this page > https://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/DebianSage > last updated in 2009. Unless someone is willing to update it, I suggest it > might be better removed. > > Dave > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
