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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: antiMS on January 04, 2011, 10:49:43 AM

Title: Sage Open Source Mathematics Software Extension?
Post by: antiMS on January 04, 2011, 10:49:43 AM

Good morning,

Have any of you smart techie folks considered creating an extension for the Sage open source mathematics software?

According to the Sage website (http://www.sagemath.org/), they have a Linux download, and a source code download available. However, according to their Linux Download page, "At the moment there are no distribution-specific packages available. Progress is being made for Debian and Fedora."

From what I read Sage is a wicked powerful python-based math suite.

It would be great to have such a powerful math tool available in TC!

Being a TC newbie (just loaded it this past weekend), I definitely don't know how to prepare a package for use in TC.

Will one of you smart folks consider creating a TC extension for Sage?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Sage Open Source Mathematics Software Extension?
Post by: tinypoodle on January 04, 2011, 08:41:42 PM

Looking at that site, it seems to be confusing at least, if not contradicting...
Following the links for downloading, it turns out there are several distro-specific packages, just not for debian and fedora...
It had first occurred to me to just download and see if I can make it work, until I realized the size...
The tarball is 489MB, yikes   :o

However, I see there is a .sfs package for Puppy, I wouldn't exclude there could be a chance this might work, renaming the .sfs to .tcz

Title: Re: Sage Open Source Mathematics Software Extension?
Post by: antiMS on January 06, 2011, 02:13:59 PM

Hey, tinypoodle.

I've got a dumb question - please bear with me since I'm a TC newbie!

Since the Sage website provides the following statement,
"Linux Download Linux binaries
Usage:
Select the one that suits your setup and extract it in your file-browser by right clicking "extract" or on the command-line using: tar xvzf sage...tar.gz.
Run sage by calling the command: sage,
does that mean I can just utilize this procedure in TC?

I've got a feeling the solution is more involved than that, based upon your initial response.

Is there a simple/ easy way to prepare Linux binaries for utilization within TC?

Thanks!
 

Title: Re: Sage Open Source Mathematics Software Extension?
Post by: tinypoodle on January 06, 2011, 05:31:38 PM

Reading instructions of the maker and then experimenting.
I already suggested above what I would try first, otherwise trying the tarball would be an alternative.

You could run ldd on the executable(s) to check for missing dependencies.

Title: Re: Sage Open Source Mathematics Software Extension?
Post by: Arslan S. on January 11, 2011, 04:58:10 AM

sage distributes third party packages bundled (even python is included). so in a base tc system you should be able to run it (btw you may need to load bash.tcz)