Thank you for the help, I have followed the guide and I get the same fails:
configure output checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking dependency style of gcc... none checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by gcc... /bin//ld checking if the linker (/bin//ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... done checking for root user... yes configure: error: You cannot build Sage as root, switch to an unprivileged user. (If building in a container, use --enable-build-as-root.) make output make build/make/Makefile --stop make[1]: Entering directory '/home/macka/Sage/sage-10.0' rm -f config.log mkdir -p logs/pkgs ln -s logs/pkgs/config.log config.log **************************************************************************** error: Sage source tree is unconfigured. Please run "./configure" first. note: Type "./configure --help" to see the available configuration options. **************************************************************************** make[1]: *** [Makefile:56: build/make/Makefile] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/macka/Sage/sage-10.0' make: *** [Makefile:39: base-toolchain] Error 2 On Tuesday, 18 July 2023 at 20:28:54 UTC+10 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 11:21 AM Tim M <typica...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Im sorry this just isn't working for me. I downloaded the version > 10.tar.gz file and after unpacking there is no ./configure available. > Yes, you need to run > > ./bootstrap > > (or, what amounts to the same thing, > make configure > ) > > first of all, as documented in https://github.com/sagemath/sage/#readme > > > > > On Monday, 17 July 2023 at 22:30:51 UTC+10 Tim M wrote: > >> > >> OK I think I have it, if I download the source of version 10 from > github I should be able to configure and make that. > >> > >> On Monday, 17 July 2023 at 21:37:45 UTC+10 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 12:16 PM Tim M <typica...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > Thanks for responding. > >>> > > >>> > The output of ./ configure is as follows: > >>> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > >>> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > >>> > checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p > >>> > checking for gawk... gawk > >>> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > >>> > checking whether make supports nested variables... yes > >>> > checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of > Makefiles... yes > >>> > checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU > style) > >>> > checking for gcc... gcc > >>> > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > >>> > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > >>> > checking for suffix of executables... > >>> > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > >>> > checking for suffix of object files... o > >>> > checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes > >>> > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > >>> > checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed > >>> > checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes > >>> > checking dependency style of gcc... none > >>> > checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > >>> > checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > >>> > checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld > >>> > checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes > >>> > checking for shared library run path origin... done > >>> > checking for root user... yes > >>> > configure: error: You cannot build Sage as root, switch to an > unprivileged user. (If building in a container, use --enable-build-as-root.) > >>> > > >>> > I understand I cant run make as root but to run configure I need to > be root. As for the version, on the Sagemath download it said 9.5 for my > version of Linux. > >>> > >>> Sorry, you apparently want to build Sage from source. Then you need to > >>> download the sources: > >>> https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/index.html#linux > >>> from > >>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/releases > >>> > >>> Nothing there says you need version 9.5 for anything. > >>> We stopped shipping pre-built binary Linux versions of Sage a while > >>> ago (the last such were released for Sage 9.4, as far as I know) > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > Any help is appreciated > >>> > > >>> > On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 19:41:09 UTC+10 David Joyner wrote: > >>> >> > >>> >> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 5:33 AM Tim M <typica...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>> > >>> >>> Good evening all, I am trying to run make but get the following > error. > >>> >>> make build/make/Makefile --stop > >>> >>> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/macka/Sage/sage-9.5' > >>> >>> rm -f config.log > >>> >>> mkdir -p logs/pkgs > >>> >>> ln -s logs/pkgs/config.log config.log > >>> >>> > **************************************************************************** > >>> >>> error: Sage source tree is unconfigured. Please run "./configure" > first. > >>> >>> note: Type "./configure --help" to see the available configuration > options. > >>> >>> > **************************************************************************** > >>> >>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:55: build/make/Makefile] Error 1 > >>> >>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/macka/Sage/sage-9.5' > >>> >>> make: *** [Makefile:38: base-toolchain] Error 2 > >>> >>> > >>> >>> I have run ./configure many times but nothing changes. > >>> >>> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> What is the output of ./configure? > >>> >> > >>> >> Note the latest stable version is 10.0, not 9.5. > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >>> Any help would be much appreciated. > >>> >>> > >>> >>> -- > >>> >>> 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...@googlegroups.com. > >>> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/c1bee291-ec60-4dd5-a11b-4c99383ba5e5n%40googlegroups.com > . > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > 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...@googlegroups.com. > >>> > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/cf56e976-9da2-4a92-a0bf-dd65d51d268fn%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > -- > > 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...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/e5e1320e-98c0-49a2-8a17-19a470b0435dn%40googlegroups.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. 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