RE: [Axiom-developer] Installing AXIOM on Mandrake

[Page, Bill]

Bertfried,

There is a CVS tarball that can be downloaded instead of
access via CVS. See

> Nightly CVS Tree Tarball
> This tarball is updated every night and contains a copy of
> your Source CVS tree.

This can be accessed by anyone without logging in.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs-backup/axiom-sources.tar.gz

However I found this link on the following page project admin
page which (I think) is only accessible to registered project
admins:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/admin/?group=axiom

Anyway, I have also added this to

   http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/AxiomDownload

So you will be able to find it easily in the future.

I think a (fairly complete?) list of dependencies for debian is
given at

  http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/axiom

The debian build assumes that GCL in already installed, but
in the case of other linuxes, the Axiom build includes GCL.

Bertfried it would be very useful if you could confirm
this list of dependencies and add any that are missing, then
I will add this information to MathAction.

And of course for giving a quick demo of Axiom, you can
always use MathAction itself... :)

Cheers,
Bill Page.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bertfried Fauser [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:53 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Axiom-developer] Installing AXIOM on Mandrake
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>       I have installed AXIOM on a mandrake linux for my friend Rafal.
> This was a challenge and he would not have succeded to do so.
> 
> Mandrake does not install by defult very much packages which 
> are _needed_ to compile AXIOM, this starts with the gcc compiler(!),
> latex, X11 developer files, binutils, m4 preprocessor, etc.
>       It took quite a while for a non expert as I am to 
> notice in which package libbdf.a etc are located. Hence my question:
>       Would it be possible to put on the AXIOM homepage a list with
> _all_ packages which are needed for compilation of AXIOM are listed.
> (When AXIOM goes into an RPM (apt) archive this might be 
> needed anyway)
> 
>       Furthermore, since we tried to install from a Win machine
> (linux box had no internet connection) it was quite hard to check 
> out the files from the cvs. (I did it using my linux book in Germany
> and ftp the file to the Win box). Would it be difficult to produce
> daily an AXIOM-...-version.tgz file in the download area of the 
> savannah server. Perhaps on a weekly basis even a compiled binary
> file for a standard linux box? This would help cvs dummies - as I am
> at least under Windows- to cope with the download.
> 
>       Sorry to report this, but my effort to advertise AXIOM 
> was kicked off by showing how difficult the installation was
> (for me, on a linux I don´t know well). The current state is not
> an ivitation to AXIOM for users with few linux knowledge, and we
> would like to advertise AXIOM isnt it?
> 
> ciao
> BF.