Debian package on github?

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On https://github.com/fricas/fricas/releases/tag/1.3.7 I see the source
distribution of FriCAS.

Do we have a FriCAS 1.3.7 debian package (using sbcl) for Ubuntu 20.04
or 18.04?

Ralf

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

There is not one. At least I have never seen a Debian package for latest Fricas. 

>apt-cache search --names-only '^fricas*'
>

But it is easy enough to build Fricas from source on Ubuntu. 

Another option, which I used before is to use Arch Linux based distribution. I recommend Manjaro. Then you can simply install Fricas 1.3.7 with one click of a button, using its GUI installer, since Fricas package exist on AUR for all Arch linux based distributions.  It will download it and install for you.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fricas

Nasser

[Kurt Pagani]

There is one, however, its underlying Lisp is GCL. Unfortunately jfricas
requires SBCL or another bordeaux threads capable Lisp. Otherwise it works well ;)

kfp@sirius:~$ apt search fricas
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
elpa-fricas/impish,impish 1.3.7-1 all
General purpose computer algebra system: emacs support

fricas/impish,now 1.3.7-1 amd64 [residual-config]
General purpose computer algebra system: main binary and modules

fricas-databases/impish,impish,now 1.3.7-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
General purpose computer algebra system: generated text databases

fricas-doc/impish,impish,now 1.3.7-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
General purpose computer algebra system: documentation

fricas-graphics/impish 1.3.7-1 amd64
General purpose computer algebra system: graphics subsystem

fricas-graphics-data/impish,impish,now 1.3.7-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
General purpose computer algebra system: graphics data

fricas-hypertex/impish 1.3.7-1 amd64
General purpose computer algebra system: hypertex subsystem

fricas-hypertex-data/impish,impish,now 1.3.7-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
General purpose computer algebra system: hypertex data

fricas-source/impish,impish,now 1.3.7-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
General purpose computer algebra system: source files

fricas-test/impish,impish 1.3.7-1 all
General purpose computer algebra system: regression test inputs


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[Ralf Hemmecke]

> There is not one. At least I have never seen a Debian package for latest
> Fricas.

Hmmm... not quite true.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fricas

But I heard that this one is built on GCL. I need one with SBCL.

> But it is easy enough to build Fricas from source on Ubuntu.

Well... that's what I do all the time. ;-) But when it comes to install
FriCAS for someone quickly, then showing this person how to "apt-get
install" all the prerequisites, then downloading and compiling FriCAS is
perhaps a bit too time consuming and wouldn't really enable that person
to upgrade to a newer version of FriCAS when it is released.

> Another option, which I used before is to use Arch Linux based
> distribution. I recommend Manjaro. Then you can simply install Fricas 1.3.7
> with one click of a button, using its GUI installer, since Fricas package
> exist on AUR for all Arch linux based distributions. It will download it
> and install for you.
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fricas

That looks great, but I need something for Ubuntu. Maybe it would be
enough if someone has a script that compiles a .deb package.
Otherwise I simply create a VM with everything I need in it.

BTW, I see a comment about jfricas and hunchentoot on the archlinux.org
site. Is jfricas working in Manjaro?

Ralf

[Riccardo GUIDA]

Hi Ralf

In principle, in *every* linux distribution one can:

1) install the powerful nix package manager (This in general is easily done manually, but in Debian >= bulleyes official packages are available, see [1])

2) use nix to install and regularly update fricas (1.3.7 is available in nixpkgs stable [2]). The simple file default.nix controls the compilation on nix side: it shows that sbcl is used [3].

Notes:
- in "nix on Debian" setup the nix packages are stored in a folder different from standard Debian's one.
- the fricas nix package has currently not a fully fledged maintainer and, in case of delay, one should ask for updates to the nix newsgroup.
- jfricas is not in nix, so one should use also pythonic package managers.

I planned to use this method but then I went for direct compilation (thanks to your kind help).

Cheers
riccardo

REFS:
* [1] https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/nix-setup-systemd
* [2] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=21.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=fricas
* [3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-21.11/pkgs/applications/science/math/fricas/default.nix#L15