On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:01 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Jernej <azi.std...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I would like to use Sage on a large computing grid running on CentOS 6.
>>
>> I've asked the administrators (CC'ed) of the grid to install Sage on the
>> grid system and they reported back that they have tried to install 3
>> different versions and all of them fail to install/compile.
>>
>> It is a bit messy to debug the compilation errors since I do not have access
>> to the system and I'd have to get this info from the admins back and forth.
>>
>> Hence I was wondering: do you happen to know if there is any way to make the
>> precompiled (Ubuntu/Debian) versions of Sage work on CentOS 6? Which
>> specific version should that be?
>
> Don't do that!  One should create a virtual machine running CentOS 6,
> build Sage on it, and then give the binary to the ops people.
>
> I just noticed that Google compute engine has ready-to-go CentOS 6
> instances, so I'll just try running one and doing this and report back
> -- I guess it'll take a few hours.

Related to this, next month Andrew Ohana is going to setup a bunch of
virtual machines hosted at UW specifically for building Sage on many
different linux distros...

William

>
> William
>
>>
>> If not, do you have any other suggestions how to install Sage on the system
>> without causing too much hassle to the admins?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jernej
>>
>>
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