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

Binder

• url: https://github.com/sagemath/sage-binder-env

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

• Nix package manager: https://nixos.org/nix/

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

• Distribution-agnostic, functional, declarative package managing.

• Should always have 0 doctest failures. To achieve that, some dependency versions are pinned. That is not an issue because Nix allows multiple versions of a package to be installed at the same time. However the goal is to minimize the amount of pinned dependencies.

• Should work on most Linux distributions. More precisely any Linux distro where the Nix package manager is available, e.g. ArchLinux, Debian, others -- definitely works on NixOS.

• Tested on x86 Linux. Probably works on ARM but that is as of yet untested.

• Could run on Darwin, but currently doesn't since some dependencies don't have Darwin-specific patches. If you're a Darwin user, help with that would be very much appreciated. This is work in progress.

• Might even work with the "Windows Subsystem for Linux", but probably needs some patches. Absolutely untested.
• Allows user-installs, given that the nix package manager is already installed.

• To install: nix-env -iA nixpkgs.sage or on NixOS just add sage to your environment.systemPackages

• Betas are usually packaged in a PR until the release is final.

• Currently (2018-07-26) maintained by timokau. Any help is appreciated. If you are interested (even if you don't know anything about nix yet), open an issue pinging @timokau and I'll help you get started.

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

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.

Discussion

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