On January 21, 2026 4:08:42 AM CST, Eric Gourgoulhon <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>Since you are using Ubuntu, you may find this page useful:
>https://sagemanifolds.obspm.fr/install_ubuntu.html
>I'm trying to maintain it up to date, in order to provide Ubuntu new comers
>to Sage with a quick way to install Sage. In particular the list of system
>packages in the "sudo apt install" line is up to date. Last time I checked
>the list posted at
>https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source-distro.html#linux-system-package-installation
>it was not the case: the command "sudo apt-get install" was failing with
>Ubuntu 24.04 because of some wrong package names , which is quite
>disturbing for a new comer. I've tried to edit the doc.sagemath.org page to
>fix that, but the list is automatically generated and I could not find
>quickly how to change it by editing some source file.
package lists are generated from
build/pkgs/*/distros/*.txt
(for Debian/Ubuntu the 2nd * should be "debian")
please open a PR to fix these names
>
>Eric.
>
>
>Le mercredi 21 janvier 2026 à 10:53:22 UTC+1, John Cremona a écrit :
>
>> Thanks (as always) Dima. There do seem to be more than one place where
>> installation instructions can be found. I thought I was being a good
>> citizen by actually reading the version I found instead of relying on my
>> past experience.
>>
>> Most of the build worked fine (but see below) after ./bootstrap &&
>> ./configure (after which "make configure" reports that 'configure' is up to
>> date).
>>
>> I found that on a system running ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS the package qhull
>> fails to build as it want cmake version 3.25 or higher while this system
>> only has 3.22.1 available. I wonder if the later version is really
>> necessary. I am hesitant to upgrade the OS as I do not have physical
>> access to the machine without a lot of hassle: it is in a central
>> university server room, and we don't like to remind the relevant
>> authorities that they still house some of our servers. It is also 13 years
>> old but still rather useful even if it still only has sage version 10.6 on
>> it.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at 23:21:19 UTC Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>>> <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source-distro.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> On January 20, 2026 12:53:29 PM CST, 'Martin R' via sage-support <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see the following on
>>>> https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/walkthrough.html
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>> Development Walk-through
>>>>
>>>> This section is a concise overview of the Sage development process. We
>>>> will see how to make changes to the Sage source code and record them in
>>>> the
>>>> Git revision control system.
>>>> Quick start
>>>>
>>>> If you are in a hurry, you can skip the details and just follow these
>>>> steps:
>>>>
>>>> 1.
>>>>
>>>> Install Git (see Installing Git
>>>>
>>>> <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/git_setup.html#section-git-install>)
>>>>
>>>> and Conda
>>>> <https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge?tab=readme-ov-file#install>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> is this the wrong page?
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at 15:42:04 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure you are misreading the documentation.
>>>>>
>>>>> The installation guide has tabs to choose the platform and the OS, and
>>>>> it refers to the development guide for installation from source.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On January 20, 2026 5:32:25 AM CST, John Cremona <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >I have been building Sage on linux computers for 20 years. I
>>>>> >currently have a working 10.9.beta0 on my laptop but also need to keep
>>>>> >working versions (not development versions) on other ubuntu machines.
>>>>> >I have never in my life knowingly used conda and I don't know what it
>>>>> >is. BUT the installation guides tell me that I should install conda
>>>>> >-- both for installing a development version and for a non-development
>>>>> >version.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >This cannot be necessary as I have never used or installed conda, and
>>>>> >I have built version 10.9.beta0.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Please can someone confirm that it is still OK to clone the latest
>>>>> >version (let's say, the latest release), do ./bootstrap and
>>>>> >./configure and make? Followed by (e.g.) make
>>>>> >database_cremona_ellcurve?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >John
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>
>
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