A big thanks, Marc. I am looking forward to testing it with my colleagues, students and friends, especially those on Windows.
Best, Guillermo On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 at 10:56, Eric Gourgoulhon <[email protected]> wrote: > This is great news! > Thank you very much for making this possible! > > Eric. > > Le vendredi 15 août 2025 à 16:34:29 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit : > >> The 3-manifolds project is now distributing a beta version of >> SageMath-x86_64.AppImage >> <https://github.com/3-manifolds/sage_appimage/releases> . >> This means that SageMath 10.7 can be installed and run on any version of >> linux which is compatible with manylinux2014 by downloading one file and >> marking it as executable. The compatible linux systems include Ubuntu >> 24.04, Debian 12 and the default ubuntu image for Windows 11 WSL2, none of >> which are currently providing any sagemath packages. >> >> This continues our effort to make sage accessible to the large group of >> users which includes most students and most of their professors and which >> consists of people who are not interested in, or not capable of, learning >> how to compile sage or maintain 3rd party package managers -- people who >> expect to be able to just download a program and run it. While, as a >> reader of this email list, you probably do not belong to that group, we are >> hoping that you do have an interest in increasing access to sage and that >> you might be interested in testing the AppImage and reporting any issues >> you encounter. >> >> For those who are not familiar with the AppImage format, it is simply an >> ELF binary executable file containing a very small program with an >> arbitrarily large squashfs filesystem appended. The small program does a >> fuse mount of the squashfs filesystem and then execs a main program located >> at the root of the filesystem. The squashfs should contain all library >> dependencies of the main program, and all dynamic libraries should be >> loaded from an rpath pointing into the squashfs. That way the AppImage has >> no external dependencies. >> >> - 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CANnG18_Aaoue0xx3bvLn21w5CLENr_WxR%2BaSqZ33Jj7ZhVkzrg%40mail.gmail.com.
