On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:27 AM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  [2nd attempt]
>  Thanls for your reply.
>
>
>  On Apr 16, 1:19 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:02 AM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  Now that 2.11 has been released, are the older linux binaries still
>  > >  available, and if so, where from?
>  >
>  > No, older binaries aren't available.
>  [well 'che sera sera' but I'm wondering where to turn!]
>
>
>  >> Background is that I am trying to install on Mandriva linux (2007).  I
>  > >  just tried a build-from-source using the 2.11 source tar file and it
>  > >  failed after several hours on indefinite-cycling while trying to
>  > >  compile linboxwrap.cpp.
>  >
>  > How much RAM does your computer have?  Linbox is a *very* demanding
>  > library to compile from source...
>
>  256MB ram and 256mb swap.  Maybe if I increased the swap to 512mb it
>  might go.

Nope.  You really want nearly a gig of RAM to build Sage from source.
(Sage works fine with 256MB of RAM -- you just can't build everything
from source.)

>  On hte other hand, there might be another problem now:  the free disk
>  space was
>  appreciably over 1 GB before I began but there is debris of about
>  400MB from
>  the failed compile, and that's after deleting the tar/expand subtree.
>  The extra seems
>  to have been added in various places in /usr.
>
>
>  > >  I would prefer to install a binary, but there
>  > >  is no 2.11 binary apparently suitable for mandriva linux.
>  >
>  > Have you tried any of the Debian/Ubuntu binaries?  They might
>  > work for you anyways since they are built on such minimal machines.
>
>  I'll have a look but up to now I have no way to install a deb package

Don't worry.  Our "debian, etc" versions of Sage are *not* deb packages.
E.g., get this:
  
http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/sage-2.11-debian32-athlon-i686-Linux.tar.gz
Then do
   tar zxvf sage-2.11-debian32-athlon-i686-Linux.tar.gz
cd into the resulting
   sage-2.11-debian32-athlon-i686-Linux
directory and type
   ./sage
to see if it works for you.  Note that you'll have to wait 1-2 minutes
the first time for
files to be

>  on
>  a mandriva rpm machine, and reh-hat rpms are reputedly not mutually
>  compatible with mandriva.
>
>
>  > > I think
>  > >  there was a larger range of binaries for the 2.10.4 release just
>  > >  past.  Can I still get one of those to try it?
>  > >  thanks in advance for any help ... terry-s
>  >
>  > I'll check also on building Mandriva binaries.  I don't remember why
>  > we aren't building them now.  We should be (I was personally a big
>  > Mandriva user for quite a while).
>
>  thanks for any further information
>
>  terry
>
>
>
>  >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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