<div dir="ltr">Why not use the Debian binary tarball that is available in the Sage website? I have just tried (for Sage 8.3) and it seems to work fine. Here is what I did:<div><br></div><div>1. As root, unpacked the tarball in /opt. This create /opt/SageMath.</div><div>2. cd /opt/SageMath.</div><div>3. ./sage. This patches up Sage's files (black magic?) and launches Sage. You end up at the Sage CLI. It can be checked out that it works, at least for simple operations - like, e.g. an integration.</div><div>4. Exit Sage.</div><div>5. cd /usr/local/bin.</div><div>6. ln -s /opt/SageMath/sage ./sage.</div><div>7. Exit root.</div><div>8. Assuming that /usr/local/bin is in your path, launch Sage by invoking the sage command.</div><div>9. Verify that it works.</div><div><br></div><div>Assuming that the above keeps working when using more esoteric Sage capabilities, getting a Slackbuilds script to do all that should be straightforward. I haven't tried building for sources, but I find it difficult to believe that the Debian binary tarball is created using some knowledge available to members of the inner circle alone.</div><div><br></div><div>If I am missing something here please let me know.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Didier Spaier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:didier@slint.fr" target="_blank">didier@slint.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I forgot: his user a set specific user "maths" for that.<br>
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On 08/10/2018 07:23 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:<br>
> <br>
> On 08/10/2018 04:22 AM, Daniel Prosser wrote:<br>
>> Perhaps if upstream is fighting so hard to make it *not* possible to package <br>
>> sage, the best course of action is just to honor their intent and stop trying <br>
>> (take it off SBo). Just my two cents as someone who does not use it anyway (so <br>
>> maybe it's actually only worth one cent).<br>
> <br>
> I am not an user either, but I once compiled it as regular user just to check<br>
> its ability to make png files for graphs, for an actual (and blind) user.<br>
> I just asked this friend, he is currently using the 8.1 version.<br>
> <br>
> As for maths there is nothing close to sage's features I'd suggest<br>
> not providing a SlackBuild but a README explaining the situation.<br>
> <br>
> Just my 0.02€.<br>
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