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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---