Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I need to do symbolic computation from time to time on my Fedora machine. So far I have tried maxima, which seems quite good for simple things but often fails to give me any usable results for more complicated cases. Acquiring Mathematica licenses is not feasible at the moment; so my questio

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Hannon
Suvayu Ali wrote: > I need to do symbolic computation from time to time on my Fedora machine. > So far I have tried maxima, which seems quite good for simple things but > often fails to give me any usable results for more complicated cases. > Acquiring Mathematica licenses is not feasible at the

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: > But prompted by your note, I downloaded the sage source (didn't see a binary > built for Fedora 17). It took a good long while to download, and it took a > much longer time to build (via a simple "make" command), but it seems to have > bui

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-15 Thread Richard Shaw
Ick... This thing (sage) is a mess of bundled libraries you'll definitely need to manage your own install. This looks to be a ton of work to unbundle all the libraries if someone wanted to package it officially. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > Ick... This thing (sage) is a mess of bundled libraries you'll > definitely need to manage your own install. This looks to be a ton of > work to unbundle all the libraries if someone wanted to package it > officially. There was some w

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello everyone, First, thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Ick... This thing (sage) is a mess of bundled libraries you'll > > definitely need to manage your

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-16 Thread Michael Hannon
>At the moment I am short on time, so cannot experiment with sage.  That >said, Fedora has a long standing packaging effort for SAGE[1].  It seems >to me sage needs a TeXLive-like distribution model to be not so >intimidating for new users.  This however does not make the effort >required to inclu

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-16 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 09:13 -0400, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hello everyone, > > First, thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > Ick... This thing (sage) is a

Re: Symbolic computation on Fedora

2012-09-17 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:18:33 +0200 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I need to do symbolic computation from time to time on my Fedora > machine. So far I have tried maxima, which seems quite good for > simple things but often fails to give me any usable results for more > complicated cases. Acquirin