On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, 12:01 Laurent Bakri, <laurent.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using Debian Testing (now "Sid" because I was wondering if it could
> help; it doesn't) and Ubuntu (23.10). Since a recent (a few months ago?)
> upgrade of Singular, SageMath won't launch on my Debian machines (laptop
> and desktop) or on my recently upgraded Ubuntu. I'm encountering the
> following error:
>
> *Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File
> "/usr/lib/python3.11/pathlib.py", line 1251, in is_dir return
> S_ISDIR(self.stat().st_mode) ^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'str' object has no
> attribute 'stat' See the file debug-launching-sage.log.*
>
we don't do packaging of SageMath for Debian,
so that's not for us to fix.
So I tried to install Sage from source on my Debian desktop, but it won't
> compile because it fails to build Brial (something related to libboost, if
> I understand correctly):
>
what version of SageMath are you trying to build?
You might need a recent, 10.1, or 10.2.rc0,
if you're on Debian Testing.
*"/../libbrial/include/polybori/common/traits.h:26:10: fatal error:
> boost/preprocessor/cat.hpp: No such file or directory 26 | #include
> <boost/preprocessor/cat.hpp>*
>
looks like you need boost's headers installed. Run
sudo apt install libboost-dev
> I'm not sure which direction I should take now. Historically, it has been
> easy because there were some "vanilla" binaries available for Linux.
> Currently, I am limited to using Sage 9.2, which, if I understand
> correctly, is the last version that comes with a "generic" compiled version.
>
if you don't want to compile Sage yourself you'd e.g. use Conda route to
install and run Sage:
https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/conda.html#sec-installation-conda
HTH.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurent
>
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