Dear Jan,

(CC to Thierry Monteil, and the Sage Days 38 organizers)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 05:15:00PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote:
>    With Ubuntu 12.04 released, here is a reminder.
> 
>    https://launchpad.net/~aims/+archive/sagemath
> 
>    apt-add-repository ppa:aims/sagemath
>    apt-get update
>    apt-get install sagemath-upstream-binary
> 
>    This is the packaged sage4.8 from sagemath.org,
>    built for Ubuntu 10.04, but packaged for 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
> 
>    The initial work is done, so hopefully I can easily repackage
>    sage5 or sage4.8 built for Ubuntu12.04.

Woohoo, you are my hero of the day!

>    I hope this makes it easier for many Ubuntu users unfamiliar with
>    software installation to get sagemath quickly.

+1! I also think that the lack of such a ppa was bottleneck number one
for adoption of Sage for Ubuntu users. Sysadmin will also appreciate
that because it makes it easy to install/uninstall/track ...

Do you think this is mature enough for us to use it for the «massive»
installation party at the beginning of Sage Days 38 next week? I guess
we can plan for something like 20-30 downloads.

>    I will somewhere over the next year also look at a
>    sage-from-source package.

We have a system administrator here (well, in Montpellier actually)
that could be interested in giving a hand. If this is confirmed, would
you be willing to share your work with him (in particular giving at
some point write access to the ppa)?

Cheers,
                                Nicolas
--
Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

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