[Slackbuilds-users] gave up Mathics SlackBuild

[Jeremy Hansen]

--dry-run is not available in the pip on 15.0. It wasn't added until 22.2
and 15.0 comes with 21.3.1.

Jeremy

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 10:49 AM Tonus via SlackBuilds-users <
slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> Even if it's not in Slackware-15.0, this option had been committed in
> 2022...
>
> Will have to dig that more.
>
> Regards
>
> Tonus
>
> Le 15 juillet 2025 20:04:31 GMT+02:00, Tonus <tonus1 at free.fr> a écrit :
> >Hi
> >
> >For the record, I would try a script like that on a virtual machine with
> full basic Slackware64-15.0
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >
> >PACKAGE=$1
> >pip install $PACKAGE --dry-run --ignore-installed  - d /tmp \
> >| grep Collecting \
> >| cut -d' ' -f2 \
> >| sed -E 's/([><=!]=|[><]).*//g'
> >
> >Have to try it anyway....
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Tonus
> >
> >
> >Le 15 juillet 2025 14:48:47 GMT+02:00, David Chmelik <dchmelik at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> >>I said before not in subject line: I give up Mathics SlackBuild: has
> several (undocumented) Python dependencies they don't want to document
> (saying like use pip on Ubuntu or something there to manually get
> dependency list) let alone instruct to install old way still theoretically
> works.  After reading/discussion seems doable with fair bit of work...
> maybe a few hours/days after learning more.  Thing is, I've never really
> been a Python fan, so sounds easier to install gratis Mathematica on rpd or
> ARM to use with remote X Window System or some other remote access (with
> one of several/few SlackBuilds here for that).  If anyone actually uses
> Mathics and wants it updated but no one's interested, I can try more later,
> but more interested either changing Moria SlackBuild to colour Moria or
> adding unless anyone gets to it first, and testing LuckyCyborgs KDE6 to
> update KuickShow.
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