installation guide

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Can someoen please provide correct links for the highlightet items at
the bottom of page 12 pf

https://doc.sagemath.org/pdf/en/installation/installation.pdf

in particular

"Fundamental system packages required for installing from source".

Thanks in advance
Ralf

[dmo...@deductivepress.ca]

Thanks for pointing out the bug.  For the one you singled out, a link that works is

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/_prereq.html

(Since this is an html file, it is in an html directory, so the path should not have "pdf" in it.)

I opened sagemath issue #40353 for this. Discussion can continue there.

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hi Ralf,

did you try an html manual (pdf looks a bit broken)? Anyway,
that part of the manual isn't strongly worded enough at the moment. Naturally you should have fortran on the system (gfortran - typically a part of gcc suite of compilers)
and Python 3.11 or newer with the development components.

What OS/package system are you dealing with?

Dima

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

since I found Arch based linux distros, I stopped having to deal with building anything from source, including sagemath, fricas, giac, etc...

I simply do 

sudo pacman -S sagemath 
or
yay -S sagemath

 That is all.   same for other software. the package manager does everything, you do not need to worry about any prerequisites or anything like this.

  which sage
/usr/bin/sage

which fricas

/usr/bin/fricas

   

I use endeavouros linux distro which I like.

--Nasser