As the directory is in /opt and ownership is root.root, I can't run this as it gets permission denied when writing the log file.
On Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 2:08:56 PM UTC-5 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > 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/3aec31b3-85a5-45f0-af52-1243a1b5b0afn%40googlegroups.com.