Are you interested in the giac that is used by a command like "giac(1)"? That starts up a separate process, so if you use something like "ps ax" you'll get a line like:
1936931 pts/11 Ssl+ 0:00 /usr/bin/giac --sage which tells you which binary is running. On Saturday, 4 January 2025 at 21:01:44 UTC-8 Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > I am on arch linux, and I found that arch pacman package manager has > latest sagemath. So I do not have to build sagemath from source, which is > much easier. > > So I used pacman to install sagemath 10.5 , also used it to install giac. > > The issue is that, I do not know if sagemath is using its own builtin giac > now or is it using the one I have also installed using pacman on same linux. > > Is there a way to find out the exact version of giac that sagemath is > using? Is it using one builtin internally inside sagemath binary, or it is > using the one I have on linux outside of sagemath? > > which sage > /usr/bin/sage > >sage --version > SageMath version 10.5, Release Date: 2024-12-04 > >sage > ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ > │ SageMath version 10.5, Release Date: 2024-12-04 │ > │ Using Python 3.13.1. Type "help()" for help. │ > └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ > sage: print(giac.version()) > "giac 1.9.0, (c) B. Parisse and R. De Graeve, Institut Fourier, Universite > Grenoble Alpes. Optimization, signalprocessing, graph theory (c) Luka > Marohnić" > sage: exit() > > > >which giac > /usr/bin/giac > >giac --version > 1.9.0 > > > > The problem is that pacman actually installed giac 1.9.0-998, even though > the version says 1.9.0 (this is because giac does not update the last 3 > digits in the version number). > > >pacman -Q| grep giac > giac 1.9.0.998-1 > > > > And this is the latest giac version. > > I'd like to know if sagemath binary is using its own giac or is it using > the system one, which is 1.9.0.998 > > Thanks > --Nasser > > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/b93933c0-0ea1-4bb1-8083-3bf5427457c2n%40googlegroups.com.
