Hi Kurt, Thanks again for the fast response. Please see my comments below.
%BTW is your system up to date? %apt update? %apt upgrade? %(Possibly it's still apt-get in LTS 14.0) In this regard I wanted to ask the following: (1) If I use the command line apt update apt upgrade will the system proceed on its own to download possibly hundreds of megabytes (or even gigabytes) of upgraded packages without asking me first? (2) Is there a way I can do the above by using the synaptic package manager GUI and somehow select which upgraded packages I want to download? > Another alternative would be for somebody to put the > constructed fricas deb package on a website link > and for interested users to download it from there. %The official tar.bz2 is really easy to install, I mean it makes no sense to %download a *.deb file from a website. IMO it will make sense only if Fricas can %be installed by "sudo apt install fricas" (including removal/update). %Let's think about it (how, who and when?) Yes, this is the best case, and I wanted to actually suggest this. I think that there are deb packages for axiom and openaxiom listed in the synaptic package manager. I assume that the fricas deb package will have to be added to the ubuntu 14.04/16.04/etc repositories? Just to be clear. Assume I use the following command you provided to create the fricas deb package fricas-1.3.1.deb: fpm -s tar -t deb -n fricas -v 1.3.1 fricas-1.3.1.tar.bz2 I then install the created deb package by using the following command: sudo apt-get install fricas-1.3.1.deb Is this correct? Regards, Constantine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
