Why is there no ubuntu package for Fricas?

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

ubuntu is the most used Linux distro. But I am not able to find Fricas ubuntu package. 

I could find sagemath and also xcas.

>apt-cache search giac

xcas - Computer Algebra System - console and graphical calculator

>apt-cache search sagemath

sagemath - Open Source Mathematical Software

>apt-cache search fricas

>

The manual installations instructions at http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL.txt  can be daunting with all the Prerequisites needed.

Are there plans to make Ubuntu package for Fricas?

Thanks

--Nasser

[Kurt Pagani]

I'm not aware of such plans. Building the package is easy, though, but to get it
through the Debian mill is time-consuming and tedious, not to speak of
maintaining it (updates etc.).

If you are interested, I've created deb/ub packages some time ago:
http://repos.aisys.ch/apt/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fricas/
with the method described in
https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_docker/tree/master/fpm

Eventually it's matter of trust to get packages from non official sources, of
cocurse. On the other hand it's really no big deal to compile fricas from
sources (see the docker file, this could be rewritten to a bash file to fully
automate the whole process.

Greetings
Kurt

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[dim...@gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:45:02PM +0100, Kurt Pagani wrote:
> I'm not aware of such plans. Building the package is easy, though, but to get it
> through the Debian mill is time-consuming and tedious, not to speak of
> maintaining it (updates etc.).
>
> If you are interested, I've created deb/ub packages some time ago:
> http://repos.aisys.ch/apt/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fricas/
> with the method described in
> https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_docker/tree/master/fpm
>
> Eventually it's matter of trust to get packages from non official sources, of
> cocurse. On the other hand it's really no big deal to compile fricas from
> sources (see the docker file, this could be rewritten to a bash file to fully
> automate the whole process.

It might be reasonable to try to get FriCAS into Debian as a part of
Sagemath (after all, FriCAS is a Sagemath package).
The Sagemath Debian team has a lot of experience with this kind of
rather non-standard stuff.

Dima

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[Ralf Hemmecke]

> It might be reasonable to try to get FriCAS into Debian as a part of
> Sagemath (after all, FriCAS is a Sagemath package).
> The Sagemath Debian team has a lot of experience with this kind of
> rather non-standard stuff.

Can you point us to the respective person?

Ralf

[Dima Pasechnik]

The people in question may be reached on
debian-scie...@alioth-lists.debian.net
(also in CC to this message)

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