On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:45:02PM +0100, Kurt Pagani wrote:
> I'm not aware of such plans. Building the package is easy, though, but to get 
> it
> through the Debian mill is time-consuming and tedious, not to speak of
> maintaining it (updates etc.).
> 
> If you are interested, I've created deb/ub packages some time ago:
> http://repos.aisys.ch/apt/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fricas/
> with the method described in
> https://github.com/nilqed/fricas_docker/tree/master/fpm
> 
> Eventually it's matter of trust to get packages from non official sources, of
> cocurse. On the other hand it's really no big deal to compile fricas from
> sources (see the docker file, this could be rewritten to a bash file to fully
> automate the whole process.

It might be reasonable to try to get FriCAS into Debian as a part of
Sagemath (after all, FriCAS is a Sagemath package).
The Sagemath Debian team has a lot of experience with this kind of
rather non-standard stuff.

Dima

> 
> Greetings
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> On 06.01.2020 00:52, 'Nasser M. Abbasi' via FriCAS - computer algebra system 
> wrote:
> > ubuntu is the most used Linux distro. But I am not able to find Fricas 
> > ubuntu
> > package. 
> > 
> > I could find sagemath and also xcas.
> > 
> >>apt-cache search giac
> > xcas - Computer Algebra System - console and graphical calculator
> > 
> > 
> >>apt-cache search sagemath
> > sagemath - Open Source Mathematical Software
> > 
> > 
> >>apt-cache search fricas
> >>
> > 
> > The manual installations instructions
> > at http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL.txt  can be daunting with all
> > the Prerequisites needed.
> > 
> > Are there plans to make Ubuntu package for Fricas?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > --Nasser
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