Hi Eric, You can install ipympl by running `%pip install ipympl` at a sage prompt. It will do a "--user" install in your .local directory.
(Ubuntu 24.04 does not allow --user installs, but the AppImage does.) Nominally an AppImage is read-only, but that is not strictly true. You can unpack an AppImage, meaning that the internal squashfs filesystem gets written out as a normal directory in the filesystem containing the AppImage. That can be modified and repacked using appimagetool. However, there is no need for such shenanigans. Just use `%pip`. I was able to run your test_display notebook after installing ipympl that way. Cell 22 worked. It did produce a deprecation warning which looked like it would be easy to fix. - Marc On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM Eric Gourgoulhon <egourgoul...@gmail.com> wrote: > I gave it a try on a Ubuntu 24.04 computer: it works like a charm! > In particular, I've run this test notebook: > > https://nbviewer.org/github/egourgoulhon/SageMathTest/blob/master/Notebooks/test_display.ipynb > and everything was OK, except for the %matplotlib widget magic in cell 22. > But the latter requires the ipympl package: > https://matplotlib.org/ipympl/ > Usually, this is fixed by a > pip install ipympl > but maybe it is technically not possible to install packages by pip within > an AppImage? > > I've advertised the AppImage on the SageManifolds mailing list > <https://sympa.obspm.fr/wws/arc/sagemanifolds.list/2025-08/msg00000.html>, > as well as on these pages: > https://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/download.html > https://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/install_ubuntu.html > > Thanks again for having developed this AppImage! It is certainly very > useful to newcomers to Sage! > > Eric. > Le vendredi 15 août 2025 à 16:34:29 UTC+2, marc....@gmail.com 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/mbuGsrmkhpE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7b050a3d-f974-4f37-997c-d35109f43e9dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7b050a3d-f974-4f37-997c-d35109f43e9dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CALcZXRFyd3hC0v3KsfG5zEdAE68oVbCe38ETc5f7mPt_ie8kCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
