On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM 'Trevor Karn' via sage-devel
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> Unfortunately I can’t run apt get because I don’t have sudo on my university 
> owned machine.

Well, conda then. Or, read on...

Tell them to run apt-get now and then, cause it's their job then, to
ensure you can smoothly do research :-)
(chances are they'll give up and give you root---or not)

I ignore my IT support,  and install whatever OS I want on
university-owned machines :-)
Once in a while I get emails about "software audits" which I
blissfully ignore... YMMV, of course.

By the way, at the moment a perfectly good refurbished Thinkpad costs
about $200-$300.

Dima
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 2026-02-06 17: 38: 29, 'Trevor Karn' via sage-devel wrote: > When I 
>> manually install python 3. 12. 5 as my system python, I am having a > hard 
>> time getting sage to see it. For example: Sage wants to install python3 as 
>> an SPKG. . . > ##
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>> On 2026-02-06 17:38:29, 'Trevor Karn' via sage-devel wrote:
>> > When I manually install python 3.12.5 as my system python, I am having a
>> > hard time getting sage to see it. For example:
>>
>> Sage wants to install python3 as an SPKG...
>>
>> > ## -------------------------------------------------------- ##
>> > ## Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG python3... ##
>> > ## -------------------------------------------------------- ##
>> > real_configure:41732: checking whether any of liblzma libffi is installed 
>> > as or will be installed as SPKG
>> > real_configure:41737: result: yes; install python3 as well
>>
>> Because xz is already installed as an SPKG:
>>
>> > ## --------------------------------------------------- ##
>> > ## Checking whether SageMath should install SPKG xz... ##
>> > ## --------------------------------------------------- ##
>> > real_configure:36275: xz has already been installed by SageMath
>>
>> I don't remember how to uninstall an SPKG, but nuking the old
>> installation from might fix it if your system xz/liblzma are
>> acceptable to ./configure.
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