SageMath for non-Debian/Ubuntu Linux?

[Szabolcs Horvát]

Are there pre-built binaries for other Linux varieties than Debian/Ubuntu, or perhaps a "generic" variety that works on all common Linuxes?

I am looking to install Sage into my home directory on an openSUSE system where I do not have root access. Am I stuck with compiling from source?

[Dima Pasechnik]

you might try conda.
(assuming it works on openSUSE, I don't know)

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 11:47 AM Szabolcs Horvát <szho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Are there pre-built binaries for other Linux varieties than Debian/Ubuntu, or perhaps a "generic" variety that works on all common Linuxes?
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[Simon King]

Hi!

I don't know if there are other pre-built binaries (I didn't look at the
download pages). In any case, it is explained at
http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/binary.html#linux how to
install from a pre-built binary on Linux.

However, provided that the prerequisites mentioned at
http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#prerequisites
are available, building from source shouldn't be much of a problem (I
did use openSUSE till a couple of years ago). It just takes some time to
compile.

Note that you don't need root access. In fact, it is recommended AGAINST
building Sage as root, which is also mentioned in the installation guide
(i.e., the pointer above).

Best regards,
Simon

[Szabolcs Horvát]

Thanks to everyone for the responses.

I succeeded in installing from conda-forge. At the moment they seem to have version 8.8 (the latest). 

The only small problem is that I accidentally ended up with a Python 3 based installation. While the functions I need appear to work correctly, my understanding is that Sage still doesn't support Python 3. Thus I should probably re-install with Python 2. Is this correct?

On Monday, 2 September 2019 11:27:22 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote:

you might try conda.
(assuming it works on openSUSE, I don't know)

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 11:47 AM Szabolcs Horvát <szho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Are there pre-built binaries for other Linux varieties than Debian/Ubuntu, or perhaps a "generic" variety that works on all common Linuxes?
>
> I am looking to install Sage into my home directory on an openSUSE system where I do not have root access. Am I stuck with compiling from source?
>
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[Dima Pasechnik]

the support of Python 3 in Sage 8.8 is not quite complete (getting
almost full in the upcoming 8.9), so it's indeed better to use Python
2 with it.
Try adding the argument

python=2.7

to the

conda create ...

command

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[slelievre]

Le lundi 2 septembre 2019 13:03:54 UTC+2, Szabolcs Horvát a écrit :

Thanks to everyone for the responses.

SageMath packaging in Fedora is also in good shape.

Distro-independent options include Conda and Nix.

For more options see

    https://wiki.sagemath.org/Distribution

I succeeded in installing from conda-forge. At the moment

they seem to have version 8.8 (the latest).  

 

The only small problem is that I accidentally ended up with

a Python 3 based installation. While the functions I need

appear to work correctly, my understanding is that Sage

still doesn't support Python 3. Thus I should probably

re-install with Python 2. Is this correct?

I use Python3-based SageMath for my daily work without problems.

It should be at least 99% working. I would stick with Python 3 unless

you detect that some specific things you need are not yet Python 3

ready in SageMath 8.8.

Less than 100 doctests fail in Python 3 based SageMath 8.8,

and it is down to a handful in 8.9.beta8.

See these two tickets which track progress on making all tests pass:

    https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26212

    https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/28298