See https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/develop/README.md#instructions-to-build-from-source point 4 ("./configure --prefix")
On Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 12:00:15 PM UTC-7 hbetx9 wrote: > So I got this working in my home directory but want the SageMath directory > system wide. I moved it to /opt and changed ownership to root.root, however > this causes now a disagreement with the SAGE_ROOT environment variable. > Should I unpack the tarball as root there to install or is there an easy > config/make that I can run on this directory to get it to work as a system > wide install? > > On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 4:22:10 PM UTC-5 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > >> On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 12:55:46 PM UTC-7 hbetx9 wrote: >> >>> On my system, python2 and python3 is installed, but there is no generic >>> python symlink. Does this need to be created for sage and if so should it >>> be python3? In installed from tarball, so this is not an issue with the >>> Ubuntu package. >> >> >> The latest binary for Linux (https://www.sagemath.org/download.html) is >> Sage 9.3. If you are using this binary tarball, you will have to make sure >> that the symlink python->python3 exists; there is a package that provides >> it. See also >> https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.3#Availability_in_distributions_and_as_binaries >> >> The latest version is Sage 9.4. Using the source tarball, there is no >> need to do anything about python/python3. Just follow the instructions in >> the README. >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/b8a59d1a-9c4a-4715-8ae6-f2df0a6c4877n%40googlegroups.com.