SageMath on Microsoft Windows

[G. M.-S.]

What is the recommended way to install SageMath on Microsoft Windows?

In

https://www.sagemath.org/download-windows.html

it says to go to

https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/releases

where I only see

SageMath 9.3 (Windows installer 0.6.3)

Guillermo

[slelievre]

The Cygwin-based Sage-Windows installer has not been released

for SageMath 9.4 or SageMath 9.5 yet.

To get the latest version of Sage running on Windows, one option

is to activate Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as WSL),

select WSL2, and install any Linux distribution there, then follow

the Linux installation guide.

[G. M.-S.]

Thanks, Samuel.

I think it is a pity there is nothing more straightforward…

But you will tell me (to look for somebody) to do it.

Guillermo

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2022, 14:37 G. M.-S., <list...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Samuel.

I think it is a pity there is nothing more straightforward…

But you will tell me (to look for somebody) to do it.

some Linux distributions have pretty much up to date Sage binary packages.

E.g. archlinux has Sage 9.5. Thus, having it installed as WSL2 (cf https://gist.github.com/ld100/3376435a4bb62ca0906b0cff9de4f94b)   should be getting you Sage 9.5 quite quickly.

Guillermo

On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 at 15:28, slelievre <samuel....@gmail.com> wrote:

The Cygwin-based Sage-Windows installer has not been released

for SageMath 9.4 or SageMath 9.5 yet.

To get the latest version of Sage running on Windows, one option

is to activate Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as WSL),

select WSL2, and install any Linux distribution there, then follow

the Linux installation guide.

 

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[G. M.-S.]

Thanks Dima.

However, this is for students to get SageMath on their PCs working quickly, so I think we will install SageMath 9.3 for the time being (they are not very savvy).

Guillermo

[Fernando Gouvea]

I don’t see archlinux in the Microsoft store.

Fernando

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[Matthias Koeppe]

+1 on adding info on how to install Linux distributions with up-to-date binary packages of Sage to our installation guide. See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/31485

(The updated installation guide, preview at https://6212659123a9467b3cb0cd07--sagemath-tobias.netlify.app/installation/index.html already covers WSL but does not mention specific distributions.)

[Fernando Gouvea]

I was trying to install SageMath using WSL, mostly to learn how it is done. Alas, the latest available Ubuntu distribution for WSL seems to be 20.04, which comes with SageMath 9.0. I have 9.2 running on Windows, so no advantage to that.

I did find Ubuntu 20.04 binaries for SageMath 9.4 in http://mirrors.mit.edu/sage/linux/64bit/index.html. I downloaded and unpacked without problems, at which time the instructions say to switch to the SageMath directory and type ./sage. That gives an error:

/usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
Error running the script 'relocate-once.py'.

Now what?

Fernando

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[Henri Girard]

Well... A little hacking if I dare say :)

Install wls2 with ubuntu 20.04 then install gwls2 with microsoft store verify it's working (it should) and then do-release-upgrade and it should install a kind of 22.04. I got it working with sagemath-9.4 (i don't know why it' not sage 9.5 as I have it working on a dual boot with ubuntu .

Why I do this ? because I have windows 11 and many softs like anaconda sage-math windows but yet I didn't success to install wolfram engine on windows but in gwls2 jupyter notebook mathematica works well only few backdraw but only cosmetic.

It's not too difficult but it needs patience because it can be tricky, but the result is good with mate-desktop I use. I even compiled amber20, sagemath but needs time.

Best

Henri

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[Dima Pasechnik]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 9:59 PM Fernando Gouvea <fqgo...@colby.edu> wrote:
>
> I was trying to install SageMath using WSL, mostly to learn how it is done. Alas, the latest available Ubuntu distribution for WSL seems to be 20.04, which comes with SageMath 9.0. I have 9.2 running on Windows, so no advantage to that.
>
> I did find Ubuntu 20.04 binaries for SageMath 9.4 in http://mirrors.mit.edu/sage/linux/64bit/index.html. I downloaded and unpacked without problems, at which time the instructions say to switch to the SageMath directory and type ./sage. That gives an error:
>
> /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory
> Error running the script 'relocate-once.py'.
>
> Now what?

Do you have Python installed on that Ununtu 20.04 ? Yes, you need it
to run the installer
(which could be more user-friendly)

Actually, probably the easiest is to use Conda installer, and not one
of these Sage binaries:
https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/conda.html#sec-installation-conda

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[Fernando Gouvea]

Ubuntu includes python3, but not python without a number. I guess I could make a symlink?

Fernando

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[Dima Pasechnik]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:21 PM Fernando Gouvea <fqgo...@colby.edu> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu includes python3, but not python without a number. I guess I could make a symlink?

yes, this will solve this problem.

I presume the installer comes from Python2 times, where there was
always python available,
(python2, normally speaking)

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[Eric Gourgoulhon]

Le lundi 28 février 2022 à 00:26:35 UTC+1, dim...@gmail.com a écrit :

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:21 PM Fernando Gouvea <fqgo...@colby.edu> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu includes python3, but not python without a number. I guess I could make a symlink?

yes, this will solve this problem.

 Alternatively, you can install the Ubuntu package python-is-python3, which makes the symlink for you.

Eric.