Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Hi David, > > On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 9:08:25 AM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby > (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > > I'm trying to migrate away from Solaris to Linux, given the takeover > by Oracle. I decided to install the latest Debian (8.5 == Jessie) , > and Sage. I have not succeeded yet, but some of the issues seem to > be ones where the installation could be made easier for popular > linux distributions. > > > with your Unix knowledge you'd feel Debian is a jail of sorts; I'd > recommend Arch.
https://www.archlinux.org/ And as a proper desktop environment, MATE (continuation of GNOME 2; GNOME 3.x is broken and totally unusable for people like us... ;-) ): http://mate-desktop.org/ (FWIW, there's e.g. also Ubuntu MATE: https://ubuntu-mate.org/ ) -leif > First configure would not run, with some crpytic message about some > library not being sane. A Google found i needed to install g++. > > Next I got a warnings that Latex is not present. I know this is not > so important, but I thought I'd install a Debian package for latex. > Unfortunately a search on Latex brings up many tens (perhaps >100) > packages. It is far from clear what package(s) is necessary. > > > texlive-full with install most everything in one go. It's an overkill, > but unless you're really short on disk space it's OK. > > > > > It might be worth the configure script reporting how to install > Latex and perhaps other missing bits. Something like > > ======= > You can get the Latex source from http://www.where-latex-is.org > > > On Debian execute: # apt-get install $whatever_package > On Suse # $whatever_command_installs_latex > On Mint # $whatever_command_installs_latex > ======== > > do this for the 5-10 most popular distributions, based on > distrowatch https://distrowatch.com/ or similar. > > I worked out how to use Mercurial when Sage used that, now I note it > has gone to git, I really don't have enough time to learn something > else. > > > the whole world has basically gone to git nowadays, not only Sage. > Besides it's not so different from hg. > > Cheers, > Dima > > > > > PS, I found this page > https://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/DebianSage > <https://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/DebianSage> > last updated in 2009. Unless someone is willing to update it, I > suggest it might be better removed. > > Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" 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/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
