Hello all, I thought I'd update you all that upcoming Ubuntu Jaunty release will include Sage 3.0.5 as the sagemath package. I believe this to be the first major Linux distribution release to include binaries for Sage.
For those of you who use Debian, there are some version mismatch issues that affect Debian sid but not Ubuntu jaunty resulting in it not working well there. Instead I recommend running the sid package on lenny. Two of the remaining problems with using Sage in Ubuntu are described below, for those of you who do any testing. I don't understand how to fix either, so if you do, please let me know. If you run into any other problems running the package on jaunty, please report a bug using Ubuntu's bug tracker (http://bugs.launchpad.net). -Tim Abbott ---------------------- Maxima in Ubuntu Jaunty is somewhat crashy; I think the problem has to do with its readline integration (I've found it hard to reproduce these issues ). File "/home/tabbott/.sage/tests/ell_generic.py", line 361: sage: E2 = E.change_ring(SR); E2 Expected: Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 + y = x^3 - x^2 - 10*x - 20 over Symbolic Ring Got: Maxima crashed -- automatically restarting. Maxima crashed -- automatically restarting. Maxima crashed -- automatically restarting. Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 + y = x^3 - x^2 - 10*x - 20 over Symbolic Ring ----------------------- Another oddity that affects Ubuntu Jaunty but not the same package running on Debian Lenny is that the first time that you run something like 'x+x" in the Sage notebook each time the notebook is run, it prints the following stuff. Future use of the notebook acts as expected. from sage.all import * >>> import cPickle >>> >>> >>> from sage.all_notebook import *;import sage.server.support as _support_; >>> __DIR__="/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/t/a/tabbott/.sage/"; DIR=__DIR__; DATA="/a fs/athena.mit.edu/user/t/a/tabbott/.sage/sage_notebook/worksheets/admin/\ 2/data/" ; _support_.init(None, globals()); >>> execfile("/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/t/a/tabbott/.sage/sage_notebook/works\ heet s/admin/2/code/1.py") 2 2*x --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
