Installing Package in Systemwise Sagemath

[Taylor Huang]

I installed Sagemath for the entire system using ``sudo apt-get install sagemath'' on my Ubuntu machine. When I tried to do something like ``sage -i kohel_database,'' it told me that it is an unknown option. As searched from the ASKSAGE etc., there's no such options within the apt installed version. So is there alternatives to install packages for this kind of sagemath environment? Or we need to start over and build a fresh local sagemath environment from scratch?

[Eric Gourgoulhon]

Le dimanche 22 août 2021 à 15:49:28 UTC+2, asd00012...@gmail.com a écrit :

I installed Sagemath for the entire system using ``sudo apt-get install sagemath'' on my Ubuntu machine. When I tried to do something like ``sage -i kohel_database,'' it told me that it is an unknown option. As searched from the ASKSAGE etc., there's no such options within the apt installed version. So is there alternatives to install packages for this kind of sagemath environment? Or we need to start over and build a fresh local sagemath environment from scratch?

Unfortunately, the last option is the only way out here. So please download one of the binary builds available at https://www.sagemath.org/download-linux.html. The bonus is that you'll get a version of SageMath newer than the system one.

 

[slelievre]

Le lundi 23 août 2021 à 15:00:49 UTC+2, egourg...:

Le dimanche 22 août 2021 à 15:49:28 UTC+2, asd00012...:

I installed Sagemath for the entire system using ``sudo apt-get install sagemath'' on my Ubuntu machine. When I tried to do something like ``sage -i kohel_database,'' it told me that it is an unknown option. As searched from the ASKSAGE etc., there's no such options within the apt installed version. So is there alternatives to install packages for this kind of sagemath environment? Or we need to start over and build a fresh local sagemath environment from scratch?

Unfortunately, the last option is the only way out here. So please download one of the binary builds available at https://www.sagemath.org/download-linux.html. The bonus is that you'll get a version of SageMath newer than the system one.

The option you describe is less severe than building from scratch,

it only amounts to downloading a binary release for Ubuntu 20.04.

So really there are at least two options available here:

- download a binary for Ubuntu 20.04 (as suggested above)

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

- build from source

  https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html

Building from source takes some time, but is much faster

than it once was, at least if you install all recommended

prerequisite packages from your system distribution.