Dear All, It is a fact that for a number of scientific packages, Ubuntu does offer fairly outdated packages: 1. Current Sage package: 3.4.1 and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is Sage 3.0.5. 2. Current Maxima package: 5.18. and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is Maxima 5.13. 3. Current Texlive package: 2008 and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is Texlive 2007. It seems to be that Canonical's key focus is to provide a set of up to date packages including office packages (openoffice.org), web browser (firefox) etc. while the up-tpdateness of scientific packages are more volunteer dependent. In the case of Maxima, Istvan Blahota ( http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/maxima/jaunty/) has compiled deb packages for Ubuntu 9.04 conforming to the the latest version of Maxima namely 5.18 for both i386 and amd64 architectures; moreover each of them has been compiled with both CLisp and SBCL. It would be great if someone from the Sage team can do the same for Ubuntu i.e. provide deb packages of the latest version of Sage for both i386 and amd64 architectures. Yours, C. Saratchand
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