Hi David, On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > Would it be sensible to suggest how to install these?
Yes, but not listing all possible commands. > But I've no idea what distributions that would work on, and what it would > not. I can't be bothered to go trying to find the distribution of linux, but > I don't mind putting a note like > > "On Debian, Mint ... use "apt-get install gfortran" > "On Slackware, foobar linux use ...." > > or something like that. > > 1) Does this seem sensible, or is it too much hand-holding? Something like the following would be OK. "Please use your Linux distribution's package manager to install any prerequisite packages. For example, on Debian and Ubuntu use the package manager apt-get or the graphical interface Synaptic. On CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat use yum. And so on." > 2) What would be the commands for the common linux distributions - not all > 600 or so of them! For Debian and Ubuntu: apt-get (command line) and synaptic (GUI). For CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat: yum. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
