Re: [sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread Jan Groenewald
Oh, you need sagemath not sagemath-common. Makes sense actually, by debian package name conventions. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1322949/how-to-install-sagemath-on-ubuntu-20-04 ~$apt-cache show sagemath-common|grep This This package contains the architecture-independent files of SageMath.

Re: [sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread John H Palmieri
For what it's worth, every now and then I create a virtual linux machine and build Sage from source using the instructions in the installation guide, including installing the recommended prerequisite software. It typically goes smoothly, and it's definitely worth trying on Ubuntu. (I've done

Re: [sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, 17:04 David Kirkby, wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 February 2023 at 11:27:23 UTC dim...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Hi Dima > > We aren't maintaining Ubuntu/Debian packages, so this report should > not have gone here. :-) > Some years/releases Debian packaging of Sage is in

Re: [sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread David Kirkby
On Wednesday, 8 February 2023 at 11:27:23 UTC dim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Dima We aren't maintaining Ubuntu/Debian packages, so this report should not have gone here. :-) Some years/releases Debian packaging of Sage is in good shape, some years it's falling behind, but we are

Re: [sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:27, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:12 AM David Kirkby wrote: > > > > from sage.cpython.string import str_to_bytes, bytes_to_str, > FS_ENCODING > > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sage.cpython.string' > > > Looks like

Re: [sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Hi Dave, On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:12 AM David Kirkby wrote: > > Some of you may remember me - I did a fair amount of work porting Sage to > Solaris SPARC. > > I wanted to try sage, and could not be bothered to build from source, so > thought I'd just install a binary onto a Dell 7920 tower

[sage-support] Sagemath binary is old and fails to install properly on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

2023-02-08 Thread David Kirkby
Some of you may remember me - I did a fair amount of work porting Sage to Solaris SPARC. I wanted to try sage, and could not be bothered to build from source, so thought I'd just install a binary onto a Dell 7920 tower workstation (2 x 26-core 2.0 GHz CPUs with 384 GB RAM) running Ubuntu