[Debian-science-sagemath] Installing SageMath on Ubuntu

[Julien Puydt]

Hi,

Le 16/02/2018 à 07:38, Jan Groenewald a écrit :
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> On 15 February 2018 at 23:14, Samuel Lelièvre <samuel.lelievre at gmail.com
> <mailto:samuel.lelievre at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     If I understand correctly, there used to be a dedicated Sage PPA
>     package for Ubuntu, maintained by Jan Groenewald and made
>     available at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
>     but this effort was abandoned after SageMath was successfully
>     packaged for Debian.
> 
> 
> Correct.
>  
> 
>     What I am missing is an overview of how Ubuntu users can take
>     advantage of the Debian packaging of SageMath.
>     - what would be the instructions for installing on Ubuntu?
>     - would that work with any version of Ubuntu? or for which?
> 
> 
> Ubuntu syncs from Debian unstable before each Ubuntu release, so you can
> on either do:
> 
> sudo apt-get install sagemath-jupyter

Or use whatever graphical interface is normally used to install packages
and get what you need, as that was precisely the point of having decent
packaging...

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