[sage-devel] Re: Update README and doc on the mirrors for the format *.tar.bz2

2018-05-06 Thread Sébastien Labbé
> > Regarding commands for extracting files, well, maybe we should just delete > that? > > > I think it is good to have. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

[sage-devel] Re: Update README and doc on the mirrors for the format *.tar.bz2

2018-05-06 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 9:27:36 AM UTC+2, Sébastien Labbé wrote: > > but maybe the webpages for the mirrors are elsewhere? > The "website" isn't the mirror, so that's not there. To change this, you have to edit the files on the master mirror. Regarding commands for extracting files, well,

[sage-devel] Re: Update README and doc on the mirrors for the format *.tar.bz2

2018-05-06 Thread Sébastien Labbé
On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 12:05:28 AM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > No, same. Our docs should just say "tar xf". > Suppose I want to update our doc and propose a fix. I tried to find the files to edit here: https://github.com/sagemath/website but maybe the webpages for the mirrors are

[sage-devel] Re: Update README and doc on the mirrors for the format *.tar.bz2

2018-05-04 Thread Volker Braun
No, same. Our docs should just say "tar xf". On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 6:28:00 PM UTC+2, John H Palmieri wrote: > > With the BSD version of tar included with OS X, you can just do 'tar xf > ...' and it will automatically detect the type of compression. GNU/linux > tar doesn't do this? >> >>

[sage-devel] Re: Update README and doc on the mirrors for the format *.tar.bz2

2018-05-04 Thread John H Palmieri
With the BSD version of tar included with OS X, you can just do 'tar xf ...' and it will automatically detect the type of compression. GNU/linux tar doesn't do this? On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 8:07:43 AM UTC-7, Samuel Lelievre wrote: > > - for .tar.gz, do `tar xzf ...` > - for .tar.bz2, do

[sage-devel] Re: Update README and doc on the mirrors for the format *.tar.bz2

2018-05-04 Thread Samuel Lelievre
- for .tar.gz, do `tar xzf ...` - for .tar.bz2, do `tar xjf ...` Example: tar xjf sage-8.1-Ubuntu_16.04-x86_64.tar.bz2 Le vendredi 4 mai 2018 15:38:00 UTC+2, Sébastien Labbé a écrit : > > Hi, > > I am currently helping someone to install Sage on Ubuntu 16.04. Some > doc/readme files