Hi I have an ISO installer image (Ubuntu + Sage) which I'd like to make available to the Sage community. It is a 1.6G file created by UCK which I'd like to host on Sage servers, to preserve our institutional bandwidth.
This can be useful to anyone hosting or teaching a Sage workshop, or willing to install Ubuntu to get Sage. The installation procedure is trivial and easy, no different from a standard Ubuntu install: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-long-term-support It requires no internet to install but can get additional updates or codecs if there is internet. It can install English and French. It installs a standard Ubuntu 12.04.1 system, but with Sage installed from the Ubuntu PPA (including dependencies), which will offer updates if that system comes online. It also includes texmaker. It is easy and safe to install next to Windows, which will be the default if you boot this on a Windows laptop or desktop. Write it to to a USB disk like this: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows Then follow the installation instructions: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-long-term-support If there is sufficient interest, I can brand it from Ubuntu more to Sage, and include a launcher icon, etc. Also if there is interest, a version can be made that installs Ubuntu, the source code for Sage, and all needed developer tools to build and run Sage. Regards, Jan On 4 December 2012 17:03, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > Hi > > I have now used UCK to make a "Live CD" which has sagemath-upstream-binary > from the PPA. > It is also Ubuntu 12.04.1 with a dist-upgrade up to the latest versions, > and a few other packages > I like (it is debatable what can be included here). It is a 1.6G ISO which > can be written to a USB stick. > It is fairly trivial to add languages, developer tools, rstudio, texmaker, > etc. > > It can then be used to boot a system > choose "Try Ubuntu" or to try Sage > in the live environment, > or "Install Ubuntu" to have Sage available on the final system (next to > Windows). It can install entirely > without network. > > Also, if the user ever goes on a network, update manager can prompt him > that updates are available, > and a fairly robust system is in place for this. > > What interest is there in making this ISO available on the Sage sites? > What interest is there in certain > packages and or language packs being available on it (versus size > constraints?). > > I'd suggest a large system for generic use, to not duplicate effort: > texmaker, scipy, many python > libraries, R, rstudio, sysadm tools, dev tools, sage, some graphics apps, > and general utilities, including > English, French, Arabic, Amharic, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Italian, > Polish, German, Romanian, > Finnish, Swedish language packs for boot and install time. > > I'm actually trying to make a different image, currently called > AIMS-desktop, but more generically > an ubuntu science desktop. This would include many more packages and > languages, though > currently the ISO limit is 4G that may in future be overridden, and even a > 4G ISO is a very > large final system -- e.g. Sage is ~400M deb but 1.6G installed. > > I'm happy to make a separate ISO with only sagemath from the PPA though. > > This science desktop could serve not only as a Sage ISO, but a generic > install with other tools available. > It can be done offline. It can be installed next to Windows on any laptop > with, say, 20G free space and > 2G RAM. We can make a 32bit and 64bit version. > > (My only concern is how to get the codecs on afterwards. But I can put an > installer in place to add those. > I think a laptop should be able to play MP3s and DVDs. But I could add > install-restricted-extras, for example, > which will require network. We can also pre-enable the medibuntu repistory > so that installation is easy.) > > If you had a workshop, you could arrive with a bag of 4G USB memory sticks > and teach people to > install Ubuntu as well. This is a fairly trivial procedure now. > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-long-term-support > > Regards, > Jan > > > On 21 November 2012 23:49, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr>wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:07:50AM -0800, tom d wrote: >> > Thanks for running this, Nicolas, and providing the detailed report! >> >> Well, for the running all the kudos should really go to the >> organizers. And all those who helped for the Sage sessions. All I had >> to do was to teach Sage to *motivated* students (ok, and fight some >> technical details); other than this it was vacations: lodging and food >> was provided. And entertainment as well with my fellow's classes! >> >> Congrats on all your ongoing work in Kenya! If I was not already going >> to be away from home for quite some time this Spring, I would have >> jumped on the occasion to come help for the workshop. >> >> Cheers, >> Nicolas >> -- >> Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> >> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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