Dear Graham On 8/12/18 11:48 AM, Graham Gerrard wrote:
Vincent: Tried installing sagemath using your recipe. Works OK for my original problem. However, have now reverted for several reasons... (a) 8.1 not 8.3
Indeed. That is the life of packages in a distribution such as Debian/Ubuntu. You should have 8.3 packaged in few months. But you can say the same with all packages there: LaTeX, gcc, etc. On the other hand, Debian guarantees that all these packages live perfectly well together.
(b) I usually add packages to the GAP pkg directory. I didnt find such a directory. sagemath structure looks very different.
The SageMath on Debian/Ubuntu is using the GAP from the system. Which means that any GAP package have to be installed from apt (I don't know if GAP optional packages are available in apt). Maybe, GAP also provides an alternative way of installing packages in this situation. The Sage binary is simple: put everything in one folder (including Python and possibly gcc!!). The distribution way of thinking is organized similarly to what you can see in $SAGE_ROOT/local /usr/bin/ : binaries /usr/lib/ : libraries /usr/include/ : header files /usr/share/ : extra files (eg documentation) In the Debian way of thinking, it is Sage that is weird.
(c) Seems slower than 16.04 tarball solution.
This is very weird. Do you have concrete examples (you can actually measure the time taken by a command using the %time and %timeit IPython magic). Vincent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
