On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:03:47 +0100 Florent Hivert <florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:
> Hi there, > > Disclaimer: I'm not a debian user and my intend is not to launch a > flame nor to disregard the hard work that has been done to have a > sage debian package. > > However, during sage days 20 as well as during my course at the > university of Rouen, I've got at least a dozen reports of people > trying to install sage with the standard "dpkg -i". Everything, looks > fine except that this sage seems to be broken. Maxima simply does not > start (just try x+1). I'm quite concerned that debian is a quite wide > spread distro, and that for all these guys the image of sage is > something huge that simply doesn't work. I was very angry when I > heard this very argument from a colleague and two students. If > confirmed, couldn't we make an official request to debian that this > package is removed from their repositories. This non working sage is > a very bad publicity... +10 See also: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/t/1f055a381532b667#3542567a19abd5ea Cheers, Burcin -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
