On 03/04/2010 11:14 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote:
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
We might make a PPA for Ubuntu. If someone is interested in an easy way to install Sage via dpkg, that might be the best option at this point.
I agree that removing sage 3.0.5 (or whatever version it is) from Debian is probably best, since our first piece of advice to anyone is to uninstall it and install Sage from scratch.
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