Distribution and packaging of SageMath

Here are some links and information about distributing Sage.

Related pages: SupportedPlatforms, days77/packaging, Infrastructure

Source and pre-compiled binaries

The release manager releases the source for each development release and each public release. Binaries for a number of operating systems are prepared by the release manager, and sometimes by more people.

• source (public): http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html

• source (devel): http://www.sagemath.org/download-latest.html

• binaries: http://www.sagemath.org/download.html

Containers

Docker images

Official SageMath Docker images

• url: https://hub.docker.com/u/sagemath/

• admin: vbraun, sebasguts, nthiery, embray

Computational topology Sage Docker image

• ships: SageMath, SnapPy, Regina, PHCPack, pandas, pe, gridlink, flipper, curver, heegaard, pygraphviz

• url: https://hub.docker.com/r/computop/sage/

• bitbucket repo: https://bitbucket.org/t3m/sagedocker

• dockerfile: https://bitbucket.org/t3m/sagedocker/src/tip/sage/Dockerfile

• people: Nathan Dunfield

CoCalc Docker images

Official CoCalc Docker image:

• ships CoCalc, including SageMath

• url: https://hub.docker.com/r/sagemathinc/cocalc/

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker

• people: wstein

Other CoCalc Docker images might ship SageMath too:

• https://hub.docker.com/search/?q=cocalc

Virtualbox

• see SageAppliance

• people: vbraun

Live USB

Sage Debian Live

• admin: tmonteil

• hosted at: http://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/

• mailing list: https://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/mailman/listinfo/devel

AIMS Desktop

• url: https://launchpad.net/~aims/+archive/ubuntu/aims-desktop

• admin: pipedream

Clef agreg

• url: http://clefagreg.dnsalias.org/

• what: bootable "Linux + math software" environment for French "agrégation" exams
• admin: François Boisson

Package managers

This section is about SageMath packages in package managers, which can be related to particular Linux distributions, or macOS-specific (like Homebrew), or distribution-agnostic, or even OS-agnostic.

• general SageMath packaging mailing list:

  • sage-packaging

Arch-linux

• hosted at: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/sagemath/

• wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SageMath

• repo: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/?h=packages/sagemath

• to install: sudo pacman -S sagemath

• maintainer: Antonio Rojas

Conda / Anaconda / Miniconda / Conda Forge

• wiki page: Conda

• people: isuruf, saraedum

Debian

• wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Sage

• packages: https://packages.debian.org/sagemath

• package tracker: https://tracker.debian.org/teams/debian-sagemath/

• build logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=sagemath including ptestlong results

• repo: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/sagemath.git

  • patches: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/sagemath.git/tree/debian/patches/

• mailing list: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-sagemath

  • earlier discussions happened on the debian-science mailing list

  • Sage-side mailing list (dormant): debian-sage

• status pages: master branch develop branch 7.4

• bug tracker: Debian bugs: package sagemath

• people: Tobias Hansen, Julien Puydt, Jerome Benoit, Ximin Luo

Fedora package

• hosted at: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/sagemath

• wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/SAGE

• see also: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/sagemath/

• mailing list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/scitech@lists.fedoraproject.org/

• maintainer: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade (pcpa)

Gentoo: Sage-on-Gentoo

• repository: https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo

• Known test failures: https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/wiki/Known-test-failures

• admin: fbissey, cschwan

Homebrew

SageMath can now be installed on macOS via Homebrew by running

` brew cask install sage `

This fetches the dmg for the app, and installs the app from that dmg. See this post on sage-devel.

Nix

• Sage package: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/applications/science/math/sage

  • Note: so far (2018-05), the nix pkg just downloads and builds the spkgs from the Sage distribution, not using the standard Nix dependencies.

RPM package (Fedora, Mandriva)

• hosted at: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=sagemath

Ubuntu

• packages: http://packages.ubuntu.com/sagemath derived from the Debian packages

• earlier PPA: https://launchpad.net/~aims/+archive/ubuntu/sagemath

  • admin: pipedream

Other

Please edit this wiki or email slelievre if you know about other package managers providing SageMath... See wikipedia's list of package managers.

Windows

SageMath installer for Windows

• see SageWindows

• hosted at: https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/releases

• based on the Cygwin port of Sage

Porting to Cygwin

• pending tickets: component: "porting: cygwin"

• wiki pages on Sage's trac: Cygwin32, Cygwin64

Windows subsystem for Linux

• Under Windows 10, one can run the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" to "run Linux under Windows", and install SageMath binaries for Linux.

Discussion

• mailing list (dormant): sage-windows

Porting to exotic architectures

• trac-wiki: Porting SageMath to Exotic architectures

BSD

• pending tickets: component: "porting: BSD"

• previous effort: Sage on FreeBSD

Solaris

• pending tickets: component: "porting: Solaris"

AIX, HP-UX

• pending tickets: component: "porting: AIX or HP-UX"

Using SageMath through other software

Other software, such as Cantor and TeXmacs, have interfaces to SageMath.

On tablets and mobile phones, Juno provides a good interface to CoCalc.

See Interfaces to Sage in other software.

Discussions

• Sage Days 77: https://wiki.sagemath.org/days77