On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

The binary I build on sage.math.washington.edu (for that machine) may
work for you, since that machineis a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 box:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/binaries/sage-4.2.1-linux-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz

Give it a shot.

William

>
>
>>  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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