On Tuesday, 6 September 2016, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> 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. > You are possibly right about Debian. What I like about Solaris was it was very stable (My dated hardware is not so stable, with puzzling hardware errors.) I get the impression that Arch is very regularly updated, which doesn't fit with my philosophy. (I regularly used to argue for Sage releases with only bug fixes, but my views on that were a tiny minority.) But I must admit I not exactly over impressed with Debian as a desktop operating system. I might try another distribution or two. 😳 > >> 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 >> last updated in 2009. Unless someone is willing to update it, I suggest >> it might be better removed. >> >> Dave >> > -- Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK. Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892. http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please) -- 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.
