#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 kcrisman):
> 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?
NO NO NO do not remove it! My point is just that perhaps there needs to
be a reminder "there is this whole Unixy thing you need to do to make some
of this work, and that includes having the `sage` in a specific spot as
well as the folder itself with the same name each time. (Because just
having `sage` in your path isn't the same as keeping it the same all the
time; I have to manually redo the symlink for my Sage install when I
upgrade my "main" Sage (as opposed to my development copy).
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14343#comment:9>
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