sage ppa

[João Alberto]

I have tried to install Sage in an old laptop with Lubuntu with the following three commands:

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$ sudo -E apt-add-repository -y ppa:aims/sagemath
$ sudo -E apt-get update
$ sudo -E apt-get install sagemath-upstream-binary
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but the last command returned

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Package sagemath-upstream-binary is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'sagemath-upstream-binary' has no installation candidate
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the first two commands ran without problems, so that the ppa repository was hit by the apt-get update command.

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...
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main i386 Packages
...
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The problem is the same as the one described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/409372/how-one-can-install-sagemath-on-ubuntu

After downloading Sage and decompressing it, I was able to run it but, I searched a lot and, until now, could not figure out what is wrong. How can I fix this? any suggestions?

[pete.d...@port.ac.uk]

I ran into the same issue and contacted the person who maintains the Ubuntu repository. He told me that at the moment there are no 32-bit builds in the Sage Ubuntu repository. You'll either need to switch to 64-bit, or download the 32-bit installer from sagemath.org instead.

Pete