I ran into the same issue and contacted the person who maintains the Ubuntu repository. He told me that at the moment there are no 32-bit builds in the Sage Ubuntu repository. You'll either need to switch to 64-bit, or download the 32-bit installer from sagemath.org instead.
Pete On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:35:39 UTC+1, João Alberto Ferreira wrote: > > I have tried to install Sage in an old laptop with Lubuntu with the > following three commands: > > ---------- > $ sudo -E apt-add-repository -y ppa:aims/sagemath > $ sudo -E apt-get update > $ sudo -E apt-get install sagemath-upstream-binary > ---------- > > but the last command returned > > ---------- > Package sagemath-upstream-binary is not available, but is referred to by > another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'sagemath-upstream-binary' has no installation candidate > ---------- > > the first two commands ran without problems, so that the ppa repository > was hit by the apt-get update command. > > ---------- > ... > Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy InRelease > Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release.gpg > Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release > Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main i386 Packages > ... > ---------- > > The problem is the same as the one described here: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/409372/how-one-can-install-sagemath-on-ubuntu > > After downloading Sage and decompressing it, I was able to run it but, I > searched a lot and, until now, could not figure out what is wrong. How can > I fix this? any suggestions? > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
