On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Jonathan Bober wrote: > 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
Homebrew can install software in your home directory. It requires ruby which of course may not be installed on the machine you are interested in, so YMMV. It was originally developed for OS X, but at one point it was ported to linux (I'm not sure if it still works): http://blog.frameos.org/2010/11/10/mac-homebrew-ported-to-linux/ https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/3153 I have thought several times that it shouldn't be too hard to create a homebrew repository for sage software, but have never tried. -Ivan -- 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
