Trying to install Sage on Mac OS, make stage failed

[Tessa Weinstein]

I was researching how to get LaTeX to do calculations so that I can automate worksheets and everything pointed to using SageMath. I am attempting to install Sage on a Mac running Sequoia 15.6 (M1).

1. I installed Xcode and accepted the license using the command "xcode-select --install"
2. I created a source/build directory
3. I cloned the Sage git repository
4. Changed into the created subdirectory sage
5. I don't plan on doing development, so I went to step 7 and entered the command: "make configure"

I got the following error message: FileNotMirroredError('tarball does not exist on mirror network') sage_bootstrap.tarball.FileNotMirroredError: tarball does not exist on mirror network Error: downloading configure tarball failed make: * [configure] Error 1

I noticed that someone else had a similar problem, and a patch (patch-2.7.6) was suggested; however, I'm unsure how to install the patch or where to install it. I downloaded the patch folder and unzipped it, but I'm unsure how to proceed.

This is the second attempt I've made to install SageMath. First, I tried a binary install, but I could not locate the "sagemath.sty" file to make it known to LaTeX. Using Homebrew or conda seemed more complicated than this method, which is why I was trying it. 

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Thank you,

Tessa

[Tessa Weinstein]

Update: I installed "patch-2.7.6" in my user directory. Then tried to "make configure" sage again. I get this error message:

File "/Users/tessa/sage/sage/build/bin/../sage_bootstrap/tarball.py", line 189, in download

    raise FileNotMirroredError('tarball does not exist on mirror network')

sage_bootstrap.tarball.FileNotMirroredError: tarball does not exist on mirror network

Error: downloading configure tarball failed

make: *** [configure] Error 1

Which seems, more or less, to be the same error as before. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is there another folder where I could install the patch? 

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[David Joyner]

If you want to install from source then the posted directions
https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#sec-installation-from-sources
do refer to homebrew or conda. 
However, I think the binary does have the latex style file inside a texmf subdirectory somewhere. 

Hopefully a more knowledgeable person will give a more helpful response. Good luck!

 

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Thank you,

Tessa

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[Dima Pasechnik]

There are ways to get Sage working on your Mac without building from source.
In our installation guide
<https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/index.html#macos>
there is a link to

<https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases>

in

No development:

    Install the binary build of SageMath from the 3-manifolds project. It is a signed and notarized app, which works for macOS 10.12 and newer. It is completely self-contained and provides the standard Sage distribution together with many optional packages. Additional optional Python packages can be installed with the %pip magic command and will go into your ~/.sage directory.

    Alternatively, install SageMath from the conda-forge project, as described in section Install from conda-forge.


Or, perhaps, you do need a customisation which does need building from source (as you tried).

HTH
Dima

[Marc Culler]

Hi Tessa,

Our binary package (actually the "Recommended Extras" installer) installs sagetex.sty in:

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/sagetex/sagetex.sty

After you run the installer,  you also  need to run mktexlsr in order for TeXLive to find the file.

- Marc  

[Tessa Weinstein]

Hi Dima,

I installed Sage from https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases

That seemed to work fine, and now I have a SageMath-10-7 icon in my applications folder. 

However, I cannot locate the "sagetex.sty" file anywhere, even though it asks to overwrite it upon installation. 

When I Google, it says that it can be found here: Applications/SageMath-<version>.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/sagetex/sagetex.sty

However, there is no "sage" folder in the "Resources" folder. This was the very first way I attempted to install SageMath, and I gave up because I could not locate the "sagetex.sty" to make it known to LaTeX.

Thank you for your help.

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[Marc Culler]

Hi Tessa,

Please answer "yes" to agree to overwrite your existing sagetex.sty file, even though you don't have one.  I apologize for that message being imprecise.  It means "Is it OK if we replace your sagetex.sty file If you have one.  But it does not actually check whether you do have one.  We wanted to warn people in case they had made changes to their sagetex.sty file which they don't want to lose.  Similarly for the script /usr/local/sage.

About the crazy statement from google: please don't trust chatbots.  When they don't know the answer they make one up, and the made up one is almost always wrong.  But, as you know, this is a much bigger issue than your sagetex.sty issue. :^)

- Marc

[Marc Culler]

When I said "/usr/local/sage" I meant "/usr/local/bin/sage".

And, as a reminder, a key step is to run mktexlsr so that TeXLive can update its database of all Tex-related files, and find sagetex.sty after you install it.

- Marc

[Marc Culler]

One more detail: when you run mktexlsr, if you see messages saying "directory not writable. Skipping..." that means that you need to run mktexlsr as the superuser, by using the command `sudo mktexlsr`.

- Marc