On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:46 PM Marc Culler <marc.cul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During our recent release of SnapPy we ran across an issue which is likely > relevant to whether Sage's documentation is viewable on newer Ubuntu systems > (such as 22.04). The issue is that these newer Ubuntu systems ship Firefox > as a snap. A snap runs in a sandbox which restricts which files the snap can > read. Specifically, the Firefox snap can only read files in the user's home > directory. > > This would suggest that a user who builds Sage in their home directory can > use Firefox to view the documentation by using a URL with the file: scheme, > but that if Sage is installed for all users on a multi-user system or if it > is installed with apt then it will not be possible for users to read the > locally installed documentation with Firefox. (Of course they can use > Firefox to read the online documentation for the current SageMath version > but, on Ubuntu, that is essentially guaranteed not to be the version that is > actually installed.) > > Have people run into this?
I've run into the opposite sort of situation, where Sage is run in a container, and the browser can't get access to files there; so one needs to use HTTP to get across the boundary. > > - Marc > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/ca8f5dbe-8b50-43e1-afaa-f2073a1e70e8n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0Xz%2B4afTcvuHsEyHg-wnb1x4vQQbHJqVb6aQGhjjzjBA%40mail.gmail.com.
