On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 5:34 PM Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > What would the current (Spring 2023) easiest instructions be for people to > install sage? I'm asking in support of an install-fest for students, so the > objective is to have easy solutions for giving students access on whatever > platform they have available. > I know about cloud-based solutions, so I'll definitely point them to > those. I'm asking for "the next step up". >
I can send you a bunch of vouchers for free cocalc licenses if you want to also give those out… > In the install advice I see: > for OSX: > - binary build of SageMath > <https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases> (looks like an > excellent solution) > - https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/sage (would be a great place to point > students to, because it's a rich environment for computational software). > However: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/sage seems to indicate that > various architecture-specific builds are woefully outdated: "noarch" seems > to be on point, but the architecture-specific ones seem stuck on 9.2. Am I > reading the info wrong? Obviously I don't want to point people to 9.2 > installs. > > for windows: > - OK WSL; that's great. However, it looks like Ubuntu would be the > easiest linux distribution to get and as far as I can see, Ubuntu has 9.5 > packaged at most? That's not great either. > - conda: see above > > for linux: > - same thing. > - conda: see above. > > So is building from source the only way nowadays? That's sad. I'm fine > doing that for myself, but for an installfest, that's really not feasible. > Probably some machines will go in thermal meltdown as a result! Or should I > just send them to 9.2 and 9.5 etc. > > Also: if students want to use packages like normaliz, can they install > those on binary installs? When I do it on source-built versions, it > triggers extensive recompilation. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/d1717bce-b359-4f83-902d-68edc2399d2dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/d1717bce-b359-4f83-902d-68edc2399d2dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- William Stein -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/CACLE5GB11D8DQ%3DDW4YWXgiRB2vgRhp56oeCFb4QcvUqWkAuQaQ%40mail.gmail.com.
