thanks a lot ! i just installed gfortran and am doing the build again right now. i will inform later if it is working correctly on Mepis 8 .
regards, Staffan On Jan 26, 5:56 pm, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:52 AM, staffan <staf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > following some urls for ubuntu to install from src like > > >http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html > > As of Sage 4.3.1, gfortran is a pre-requisite [1] for compiling Sage > on Linux. I have updated the above URL to include instructions for > installing gfortran on Debian/Ubuntu. > > >http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html > > The Installation Guide needs some updates to account for the changes > at ticket #7485 [1]. This issue is tracked at ticket #8080 [2]. A > similar issue is also tracked at ticket #7484 [3], but for the > README.txt at the top-level Sage directory. > > > and > > >http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1382405 > > The instructions at that URL is for Sage version earlier than 4.3.1, > so they may not work for Sage 4.3.1 due to ticket #7485. See the URL > > http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html > > for updated instructions for Debian/Ubuntu. > > > i checked that i had all required langs and tools first. > > i came fairly far in the process with make but at the end of > > the process i got an error . any one who has a clue what the > > problem is? > > It's recommended that you have Fortran installed. On Debian/Ubuntu, if > you have gfortran installed, the command "which gfortran" should > report the location of that Fortran compiler: > > [mv...@sage ~]$ which gfortran > /usr/bin/gfortran > [mv...@sage ~]$ gfortran --version > GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9) 4.4.1 > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran > under the terms of the GNU General Public License. > For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING > > If you don't have gfortran on your system, but you have sudo > privileges on your system, you could install gfortran as follows: > > sudo apt-get install gfortran > > [1]http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7485 > > [2]http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8080 > > [3]http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7484 > > -- > Regards > Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org