Hi On 29 April 2012 17:34, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote:
> 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<https://launchpad.net/%7Eaims/+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. > > Yes, I think so. Note I am repackaging a binary built by sagemath.org! Ubuntu 12.04 should happily run something compiled for Ubuntnu 10.04. Any bugs are likely to come from firefox/java versions. I do run this version of sage myself for a while now. If jmol 3d plotting does not work or hangs, set, in about:config in firefox, dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled to true. If the build scripts for upstream binaries are provided to me, and the particular settings (SAGE_FAT_BINARY, STRIP_WHATEVER, etc.) it will help me on my path to try sage from source, or just to build sage5.0 for a binary package. Until I'm more familiar I might prefer to use a binary built by upstream. > > 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)? > Of course, all help welcome! Let him send me an email. Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- 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
