Sage-on-Gentoo provides split ebuilds (http://www.gentoo.org) for the computer algebra system SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org).
If you have problems with sage-on-gentoo or have suggestions talk to us on #gentoo-science
https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/
or write a mail to the "gentoo-science" mailing list
https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html
An archive listing past mails may be found at
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-science/
Eselect-repository install
The easiest way to enable the overlay is to:
emerge --noreplace eselect-repository && eselect repository enable sage-on-gentoo && emerge --sync
and emerge the package as usual.
Manual Install
As per the current Portage specifications (https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/portage.5.html), ebuild repositories (a.k.a. overlays) can be managed via file collections under /etc/portage/repos.conf/, via the new plug-in sync system (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync).
To enable the overlay without the need for additional software, you first need to have git installed:
emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git
Then you need to add the sage-on-gentoo repository configuration by downloading the [sage-on-gentoo.conf](metadata/sage-on-gentoo.conf) file:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/master/metadata/sage-on-gentoo.conf \
-O /etc/portage/repos.conf/sage-on-gentoo
Manual Uninstall
To uninstall the overlay, simply run:
rm /etc/portage/repos.conf/sage-on-gentoo rm /var/db/repos/sage-on-gentoo -rf
Synchronising the overlay
The overlay is synced each time you run emerge --sync or the equivalent eix-sync if you are using it. Off course it synchronises the whole tree which could be undesirable if you have already synced recently. To synchronise only the overlay use:
emaint sync -r sage-on-gentoo
Before being able to install you may need to unmask the required ebuilds. If
you are using Gentoo/unstable or Funtoo (i.e. you have a line like
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~arch in your /etc/portage/make.conf) you can skip this step:
sage-on-gentoo/tools/package.keywords/sage sage-on-gentoo/tools/package.keywords/sage.prefix (for prefix users only)
To use these files permanently, place symbolic link to the one of those files into your
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/ directory
(prefix users should adjust with their prefix):
ln -s /var/db/repos/sage-on-gentoo/tools/package.keywords/sage \
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/sage
Otherwise, simply copy it into the directory for a one-time fix.
The sage.prefix files contains keywords for ebuilds lacking any prefix keywords.
Since Sage's ebuild requires its dependencies to be built with several USE-flags we provide a standard package.use file as well:
ln -s /var/db/repos/sage-on-gentoo/tools/package.use/sage \
/etc/portage/package.use/sage
I currently do not provide binary documentation but I am hoping to restore this service at some point in time.
NOTE: if you want sage to display plots while working from a terminal, you should make sure that matplotlib is installed with at least one graphical backend such as gtk3 or qt5.
Type:
emerge -va sage
to install sage; please note that this will pull in a lot of dependencies. If you can not proceed with this step (because of circular dependencies, missing USE-flags, and so on) please report this behavior.
Starting with sage 9.5 which is split into several ebuilds, a set has been added for convenience. To make the set available to portage:
mkdir -p /etc/portage/sets
ln -s /var/db/repos/sage-on-gentoo/tools/sets/sagemath \
/etc/portage/sets/sagemath
More informations on sets can be found at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/sets
While emerge -va sage will still emerge the necessary ebuilds, using the set make
sure all the relevant ebuilds are always rebuilt or removed in sync. To use the set to
install sage type:
emerge -va @sagemath
To unistall the main ebuilds of sage type:
emerge -C @sagemath
Additionally, we have some optional sagemath packages provided by the sagemath-optional set:
ln -s /var/db/repos/sage-on-gentoo/tools/sets/sagemath-optional \
/etc/portage/sets/sagemath-optional
emerge -va @sagemath-optional
A Prefix enables you to install Gentoo on different OS (e.g Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris and even Windows). Thus, you may be able to run Sage on Gentoo e.g. on a Debian Linux. For a complete introduction into Gentoo Prefix and how to set it up visit
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
After having a working Prefix you may setup sage-on-gentoo in a Prefix by following the quick installation guide.
Currently, we support every Linux running with amd64 instruction sets, in particular the following architectures:
- ~amd64-linux