Thanks for the helpful comments, Vincent. Will try again with the official 18.04 version and "think" the Debian way. Assume that no news is good news and that you have a happy customer.
Graham On 12 August 2018 at 17:01, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Graham > > On 8/12/18 11:48 AM, Graham Gerrard wrote: > >> Vincent: Tried installing sagemath using your recipe. Works OK for my >> original problem. However, have now reverted for several reasons... >> (a) 8.1 not 8.3 >> > > Indeed. That is the life of packages in a distribution such as > Debian/Ubuntu. You should have 8.3 packaged in few months. But you can > say the same with all packages there: LaTeX, gcc, etc. On the other > hand, Debian guarantees that all these packages live perfectly well > together. > > (b) I usually add packages to the GAP pkg directory. I didnt find such a >> directory. sagemath structure looks very different. >> > > The SageMath on Debian/Ubuntu is using the GAP from the system. Which > means that any GAP package have to be installed from apt > (I don't know if GAP optional packages are available in apt). > > Maybe, GAP also provides an alternative way of installing > packages in this situation. > > The Sage binary is simple: put everything in one folder (including > Python and possibly gcc!!). The distribution way of thinking is > organized similarly to what you can see in $SAGE_ROOT/local > > /usr/bin/ : binaries > /usr/lib/ : libraries > /usr/include/ : header files > /usr/share/ : extra files (eg documentation) > > In the Debian way of thinking, it is Sage that is weird. > > (c) Seems slower than 16.04 tarball solution. >> > > This is very weird. Do you have concrete examples (you can actually > measure the time taken by a command using the %time and %timeit > IPython magic). > > Vincent > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to > pic/sage-support/xbLE-tPJziI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
