Hi Ajay,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Ajay Rawat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  Is the binary for sage 4.2.1 is available for ubuntu 8.04 (64 bit).

There are binaries for Ubuntu 9.10, both 32- and 64-bit. There are no
binaries for Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit. If you want a binary for that
platform, you could download the source tarball of Sage 4.2.1 and
compile the source on that platform.


>  How it is different from compiling the source package?

Each source tarball is shipped with the source of the standard
packages that make up Sage. In particular, the Sage standard library
is one of many standard packages. A binary of Sage doesn't ship with
the source of most standard packages. This is to save space, otherwise
you would get a binary that is bigger in terms of megabytes than
currently is the case. However, note that each binary also contains
the source of the Sage standard library.

-- 
Regards
Minh Van Nguyen

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