On Apr 29, 4:46 am, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> sage -help says:
>
> ...
> -optional -- list all optional packages that can be downloaded
> ...
>
> But then I get this
>
> w...@hera:~/texfiles/quotes$ sage -optional
> Using SAGE
> Serverhttp://www.sagemath.org//packageshttp://www.sagemath.org//packages/optional/list-->
> /usr/lib/sagemath/tmp/list
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/sagemath/tmp/list'
Well, you need write permission to install optional spkgs. The error
message is less than elegant in this case.
> Doing the suggested export and rerunning the command doesn't help.
> Is this a bug?
Maybe - there is already a ticket to fix this.
> I'm looking for an easy way to determine the exact number of standard
> packages and optional packages for this talk I'm giving in RI in 2 days.
Well, just look into spkg/[optional|experimental] to see what is
installed.
> - David Joyner
Cheers,
Michael
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