there is presently some kind of mess with GAP packages (i.e. "full" GAP) in 
Conda - only GAP 4.13 is available, no GAP 4.14.
And that GAP 4.13 is not compatible with Sage, as it uses old libflint and 
arb.
I have opened https://github.com/conda-forge/gap-feedstock/issues/94

On Friday, March 7, 2025 at 9:23:38 AM UTC-6 vdelecroix wrote:

> It turns out that there are three packages concerned with gap in conda
> - gap-core : only the gap executable
> - gap-defaults : a tiny subset of gap packages
> - gap : all packages (that build)
>
> Installing gap solved my issue!
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 09:31, Vincent Delecroix
> <20100.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Dima for the pointers.
> >
> > Note that it does not exactly solve the issue in the "dirty short term
> > way" since images depends on ferret which contains C++ code.
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 16:08, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM Vincent Delecroix
> > > <20100.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have code relying on the GAP package Images
> > > > (https://gap-packages.github.io/images/doc/chap0_mj.html). Short
> > > > version of the question : is there a (dirty short term or clean long
> > > > term) solution for having a working Images gap package in a conda
> > > > install of SageMath?
> > >
> > > Images is just GAP code, so installing it just needs putting the
> > > source in an appropriate directory.
> > > E.g. GAP's PackageManager (which is itself a GAP package) should be
> > > able to install it for you without
> > > problems.
> > > Or you can put it manually in ~/.gap/pkg/
> > > - or in <whatever prefix>/pkg/ - where you other GAP packages are.
> > > >
> > > > It does work when I use my (arch) system sage after installing
> > > > gap-packages with pacman and also from source (since the SageMath
> > > > gap_packages include Images). However
> > > >
> > > > - Images is not listed in the documentation
> > > > https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/gap_packages.html
> > > > which is confusing. Why don't we have the full list in
> > > > src/buipkd/gap_packages/SPKG.rst?
> > >
> > > probably an oversight - we keep adding packages to gap_packages in an
> > > ad hoc manner.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > - there does not seem to be a way to install the gap packages in
> > > > conda, is there?
> > >
> > > In principle, you can install (for your user) any GAP package in 
> ~/.gap/pkg/
> > > (if it needs building, you'd need to figure out where the appropriate
> > > GAP configs file (called sysinfo.gap) lives,
> > > and pass this location to the package's configure)
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Dima
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Best
> > > > Vincent
> > > >
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