#14343: improve the installation guide for SageTeX
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Reporter: ddrake | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Dan Drake | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: u/ddrake/sagetex- | Commit:
install-guide-14343 | d6b008042a3af9bd03dab2288f9c5583b9875ae7
Dependencies: #14246 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by ddrake):
Replying to [comment:7 kcrisman]:
> I like this overall but feel like
> {{{
> + mkdir -p TEXMFHOME/tex/latex
> + ln -s SAGE_ROOT/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/sagetex/sagetex.sty
TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/sagetex.sty
> }}}
> only works if people are always installing Sage in the same place every
time,
Our releases have version and system stuff in the name, so users will have
to copy the TeX stuff over...or rename their download so the symlink
works. They have to do something and I don't know a good way to automate
it. I wanted to add the symlink idea because that's what the TeXShop
people suggest now -- and it's what I do.
Also, how do people actually run Sage? Don't they need to rename the
sage-x.y.z directory? In the SageTeX documentation we always assume that
"``sage``" is in their path, so how are users accomplishing that?
Should I just remove the symlink suggestion?
> Also, the "spectacularly unpleasant experience" is very similar to
#18951, or at least to the email I got which precipitated my opening that
ticket... I wonder if sometimes following even one step wrong causes the
other steps to just "not work"?
For a certain class of users, I'm sure it does. If you have a poor
understanding of Unix-like filesystems, paths, etc, then I'm sure it's
easy to take one misstep and find yourself hopelessly lost.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14343#comment:8>
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