On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 5:21 AM Grégory Vanuxem <
g.va...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Checking more why this error, maybe that helps a little bit:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG giac...
> checking whether any of pari is installed as or will be installed as SPKG... no
> checking for giac >= 1.9.0, <= 1.9.999... /usr/bin/giac
> checking for giac/giac.h... yes
> checking for library containing ConvertUTF16toUTF8... -lgiac
> configure: will use system package and not install SPKG giac
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Where on my Debian like system (Kali) /usr/bin/giac is provided by
> xcas and giac.h provided by libgiac-dev.
> I just check with 'dpkg -S ...'.
Sure. However,here the problem is probably related to most WSL users
sticking to the default for WSL Ubuntu LTS distro,
which is likely to be 22.04, carrying giac 1.7, too old for Sage.
So they'd need (i.e. Sage needs) to build giac from source, and this
is not very easy.
Best
Dima
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