[2nd attempt] Thanls for your reply. On Apr 16, 1:19 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:02 AM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now that 2.11 has been released, are the older linux binaries still > > available, and if so, where from? > > No, older binaries aren't available. [well 'che sera sera' but I'm wondering where to turn!]
>> Background is that I am trying to install on Mandriva linux (2007). I > > just tried a build-from-source using the 2.11 source tar file and it > > failed after several hours on indefinite-cycling while trying to > > compile linboxwrap.cpp. > > How much RAM does your computer have? Linbox is a *very* demanding > library to compile from source... 256MB ram and 256mb swap. Maybe if I increased the swap to 512mb it might go. On hte other hand, there might be another problem now: the free disk space was appreciably over 1 GB before I began but there is debris of about 400MB from the failed compile, and that's after deleting the tar/expand subtree. The extra seems to have been added in various places in /usr. > > I would prefer to install a binary, but there > > is no 2.11 binary apparently suitable for mandriva linux. > > Have you tried any of the Debian/Ubuntu binaries? They might > work for you anyways since they are built on such minimal machines. I'll have a look but up to now I have no way to install a deb package on a mandriva rpm machine, and reh-hat rpms are reputedly not mutually compatible with mandriva. > > I think > > there was a larger range of binaries for the 2.10.4 release just > > past. Can I still get one of those to try it? > > thanks in advance for any help ... terry-s > > I'll check also on building Mandriva binaries. I don't remember why > we aren't building them now. We should be (I was personally a big > Mandriva user for quite a while). thanks for any further information terry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
