On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net>wrote:
> > You'll find here http://clefagreg.dnsalias.org/ a distribution aimed at > them. And in fact, several distributions, to be installed on a usb key and > booted, precisely because the students may not have administrative rights > on the machines they have access to. There used to be a sage variant, which > is still mentioned, but I don't find it on that page. It was optional in > part because of size issues : the key was already choke-full with > math-oriented stuff... which sage duplicates! > > USB-booting is nice, but my example takes place on a small super-computer cluster in a different country, which I only access with ssh. Also, I'm talking about actually _installing_ software, not just running it. If there is another way to easily install software in my home directory, I would like to know about it. I'm sure some sort of package management system that supported it could be built. The problem is annoying enough that some people started http://fixingscientificsoftwaredistribution.blogspot.com/ (It doesn't look like that blog went very far.) -- 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
