[Debian-science-sagemath] SageMath on Ubuntu 18.04

[Erik Bray]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:44 AM Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/05/2018 09:32 PM, Samuel Lelièvre wrote:
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> Dear packagers of SageMath for Debian,
>
> A user is reporting on sage-support that SageMath 8.1
> does not work under Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-support/C2jU44eQnK4/discussion
>
>
> Thanks, seems like he already fixed it.
>
>
> Jmol problems with Java 10 have been reported before.
> They might be solved by the upgrade to Jmol 14.29.10.
> Progress on this is tracked at
>
> - Sage Trac ticket #25026
>   Update jmol to version 14.29.10
>   https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25026
>
> The Debian package tracker reports Debian has Jmol 14.6.4,
> is any upgrade on the radar?
>
>     https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/jmol
>
> Feel free to add any comment on the Sage Trac ticket cited above.
>
>
> I have not much to say about jmol. It's one of the worst sagemath dependencies for us to deal with, because we have to build it from source in Debian which upstream doesn't really expect people to do. We will probably not touch it unless we have to.

JMol is utterly broken in Sage for Windows as well.  It's a nice
little program, but I don't believe it belongs as a dependency of
Sage--there are so much better ways to produce 3-D graphics.  I wish
we would just drop it.