On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > You might like Ubuntu LTS releases. The "LTS" implies some stability, and a benefit of Ubuntu is that it is (relatively) popular, so easier to find answers about when you search on Google. > > 😳 >> >>> 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. > -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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.
