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.. _sec-installation-from-sources:
Install from Source Code
========================
.. contents:: Table of contents
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More familiarity with computers may be required to build Sage from
the `source code <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code>`_.
If you do have all the :ref:`pre-requisite tools <section-prereqs>`,
the process should be completely
painless, basically consisting in extracting the source tarball and typing
``make``. It can take your computer a while to build Sage from the source code,
although the procedure is fully automated and should need no human
intervention.
Building Sage from the source code has the major advantage that your install
will be optimized for your particular computer and should therefore offer
better performance and compatibility than a binary install.
Moreover, it offers you full development capabilities:
you can change absolutely any part of Sage or the programs on which it depends,
and recompile the modified parts.
`Download the Sage source code <https://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html>`_
or get it from the `git repository <https://github.com/sagemath/sage>`_.
Note: if you are installing Sage for development, you should rather follow
the instructions in
`The Sage Developer's Guide <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/walk_through.html#chapter-walkthrough>`_.
It is also possible to download a
`binary distribution <https://www.sagemath.org/download.html>`_
for some operating systems, rather than compiling from source.
Supported platforms
-------------------
Sage runs on all major `Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>`_
distributions, `macOS <https://www.apple.com/macosx/>`_ , and Windows
(via the `Cygwin <https://cygwin.com/>`_ Linux API layer).
Other installation options for Windows are using the Windows Subsystem
for Linux (WSL), or with the aid of a `virtual machine
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine>`_.
.. _section-prereqs:
Prerequisites
-------------
General requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This section details the technical prerequisites needed on all platforms. See
also the `System-specific requirements`_ below.
Disk space and memory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your computer comes with at least 6 GB of free disk space.
It is recommended to have at least 2 GB of RAM, but you might get away
with less (be sure to have some swap space in this case).
Command-line tools
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In addition to standard `POSIX <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX>`_ utilities
and the `bash <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)>`_ shell,
the following standard command-line development tools must be installed on your
computer:
- A **C/C++ compiler**: Since SageMath builds its own GCC if needed,
a wide variety of C/C++ compilers is supported.
Many GCC versions work,
from as old as version 4.8 (but we recommend at least 5.1) to the most recent release.
Clang also works.
See also `Using alternative compilers`_.
- **make**: GNU make, version 3.80 or later. Version 3.82 or later is recommended.
- **m4**: GNU m4 1.4.2 or later (non-GNU or older versions might also work).
- **perl**: version 5.8.0 or later.
- **ar** and **ranlib**: can be obtained as part of GNU binutils.
- **tar**: GNU tar version 1.17 or later, or BSD tar.
- **python**: Python 3.4 or later, or Python 2.7.
(This range of versions is a minimal requirement for internal purposes of the SageMath
build system, which is referred to as ``sage-bootstrap-python``.)
Other versions of these may work, but they are untested.
Libraries
^^^^^^^^^
Some Sage components (and among them, most notably, Python) *"use the
OpenSSL library for added performance if made available by the
operating system"* (literal quote from the Python license). Testing
has proved that:
* Sage can be successfully built against other SSL libraries (at
least GnuTLS).
* Sage's ``-pip`` facility (used to install some Sage packages) is
disabled when Sage is compiled against those libraries.
Furthermore, the Sage license mention that the ``hashlib`` library
(used in Sage) uses OpenSSL.
Therefore, the OpenSSL library is recommended. However, Sage's license
seems to clash with OpenSSL license, which makes the distribution of
OpenSSL along with Sage sources dubious. However, there is no problem
for Sage using a systemwide-installed OpenSSL library.
In any case, you must install systemwide your chosen library and its
development files.
Fortran and compiler suites
###########################
Sage installation also needs a Fortran compiler. It is determined
automatically whether Sage's GCC package, or just its part containing
Fortran compiler ``gfortran`` needs to be installed. This can be
overwritten by running ``./configure`` with option
``--without-system-gcc``.
Officially we support
gfortran from `GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) <https://gcc.gnu.org/>`_.
If C and C++ compilers also come from there (i.e., gcc and g++), their versions
should match.
Alternatively, one may use C and C++ compilers from
`Clang: a C language family frontend for LLVM <https://clang.llvm.org/>`_,
and thus matching versions of
clang, clang++ , along with a recent gfortran. (Flang (or other LLVM-based
Fortran compilers) are not officially supported, however it is possible to
to build Sage using flang, with some extra efforts needed to set various flags;
this is work in progress at the moment (May 2019)).
Therefore, if you plan on using your own GCC compilers, then make sure that
their versions match.
To force using specific compilers, set environment variables ``CC``,
``CXX``, and ``FC`` (for C, C++, and Fortran compilers, respectively)
to the desired values, and run ``./configure``. For example,
``./configure CC=clang CXX=clang++ FC=gfortran`` will configure Sage
to be built with Clang C/C++ compilers and Fortran compiler
``gfortran``.
Alternatively, Sage includes a GCC package, so that C, C++ and Fortran
compilers will be built when the build system detects that it is needed,
e.g., non-GCC compilers, or
versions of the GCC compilers known to miscompile some components of Sage,
or simply a missing Fortran compiler.
In any case, you always need at least a C/C++ compiler to build the GCC
package and its prerequisites before the compilers it provides can be used.
Note that you can always override this behavior through the configure
options ``--without-system-gcc`` and ``--with-system-gcc``, see
:ref:`section_compilers`.
There are some known problems with old assemblers, in particular when
building the ``ecm`` and ``fflas_ffpack`` packages. You should ensure
that your assembler understands all instructions for your
processor. On Linux, this means you need a recent version of
``binutils``; on macOS you need a recent version of Xcode.
Python for venv
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By default, Sage will try to use system's `python3` to set up a virtual
environment, a.k.a. `venv <https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/venv.html>`_
rather than building a Python 3 installation from scratch.
Use the configure option ``--without-system-python3`` in case you want Python 3
built from scratch.
Sage will accept versions 3.7.x to 3.9.x.
You can also use ``--with-python=/path/to/python3_binary`` to tell Sage to use
``/path/to/python3_binary`` to set up the venv. Note that setting up venv requires
a number of Python modules to be available within the Python in question. Currently,
for Sage 9.2, these modules are as follows: sqlite3, ctypes, math, hashlib, crypt,
readline, socket, zlib, distutils.core - they will be checked for by configure.
Other notes
^^^^^^^^^^^
After extracting the Sage tarball, the subdirectory :file:`upstream`
contains the source distributions for everything on which Sage depends.
If cloned from a git repository, the upstream tarballs will be downloaded,
verified, and cached as part of the Sage installation process.
We emphasize that all of this software is included with Sage, so you do not
have to worry about trying to download and install any one of these packages
(such as Python, for example) yourself.
When the Sage installation program is run,
it will check that you have each of the above-listed prerequisites,
and inform you of any that are missing, or have unsuitable versions.
System-specific requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On macOS, there are various developer tools needed which may require
some registration on Apple's developer site; see
:ref:`section_macprereqs`.
On Redhat-derived systems not all perl components are installed by
default and you might have to install the ``perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker``
package.
On Cygwin, the ``lapack`` and ``liblapack-devel`` packages are required to
provide ATLAS support as the Sage package for ATLAS is not built by default.
Installing prerequisites
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To check if you have the above prerequisites installed, for example ``perl``,
type::
$ command -v perl
or::
$ which perl
on the command line. If it gives an error (or returns nothing), then
either ``perl`` is not installed, or it is installed but not in your
`PATH <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29>`_.
.. _sec-installation-from-sources-linux-recommended-installation:
Linux recommended installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On Linux systems (e.g., Ubuntu, Redhat, etc), ``ar`` and ``ranlib`` are in the
`binutils <https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/>`_ package.
The other programs are usually located in packages with their respective names.
Assuming you have sufficient privileges, you can install the ``binutils`` and
other necessary/standard components. The lists provided below are longer than
the minimal prerequisites, which are basically ``binutils``, ``gcc``/``clang``, ``make``,
``tar``, but there is no real need to build compilers and other standard tools
and libraries on a modern Linux system, in order to be able to build Sage.
If you do not have the privileges to do this, ask your system administrator to
do this, or build the components from source code.
The method of installing additional software varies from distribution to
distribution, but on a `Debian <https://www.debian.org/>`_ based system (e.g.
`Ubuntu <https://www.ubuntu.com/>`_ or `Mint <https://www.linuxmint.com/>`_),
you would use
`apt-get <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool>`_.
On Debian ("buster" or newer) or Ubuntu ("bionic" or newer):
.. literalinclude:: debian.txt
.. WARNING::
Note: in this documentation, commands like these are
autogenerated. They may as such include duplications. The
duplications are certainly not necessary for the commands to
function properly, but they don't cause any harm, either.
On Fedora / Redhat / CentOS:
.. literalinclude:: fedora.txt
On Arch Linux:
.. literalinclude:: arch.txt
(These examples suppose that you choose to use a systemwide OpenSSL library.)
In addition to these, if you don't want Sage to build optional packages that might
be available from your OS, cf. the growing list of such packages on :trac:`27330`,
install on Debian ("buster" or newer) or Ubuntu ("bionic" or newer):
.. literalinclude:: debian-optional.txt
On Fedora / Redhat / CentOS:
.. literalinclude:: fedora-optional.txt
On Arch Linux:
.. literalinclude:: arch-optional.txt
On other Linux systems, you might use
`rpm <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager>`_,
`yum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified>`_,
or other package managers.
.. _section_macprereqs:
macOS prerequisite installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On macOS systems, you need a recent version of
`Command Line Tools <https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?=command%20line%20tools>`_.
It provides all the above requirements.
If you have already installed `Xcode <https://developer.apple.com/xcode/>`_
(which at the time of writing is freely available in the Mac App Store,
or through https://developer.apple.com/downloads/ provided you registered for an
Apple Developer account), you can install the command line tools from
there as well.
- With OS X Mavericks or Yosemite, run the command
``xcode-select --install`` from a Terminal window and click "Install"
in the pop-up dialog box.
- Using OS X Mountain Lion or earlier, run Xcode, open its "Downloads"
preference pane and install the command line tools from there.
- On pre-Lion macOS systems, the command line tools are not available as a
separate download and you have to install the full-blown Xcode supporting your
system version.
If you have not installed `Xcode <https://developer.apple.com/xcode/>`_
you can get these tools as a relatively small download, but it does require
a registration.
- First, you will need to register as an Apple Developer at
https://developer.apple.com/register/.
- Having done so, you should be able to download it for free at
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?=command%20line%20tools
- Alternately, https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ should have a link
to Command Line Tools.
macOS recommended installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Although Sage can in theory build its own version of gfortran, this
can take a while, and the process fails on some recent versions of
OS X. So instead you can install your own copy. One advantage of this
is that you can install it once, and it will get used every time you
build Sage, rather than building gfortran every time.
One way to do that is with the `Homebrew package manager
<https://brew.sh>`_. Install Homebrew as their web page describes, and
then the command ::
$ brew install gcc
will install Homebrew's gcc package, which includes gfortran. Sage
will also use other Homebrew packages, if they are present. You can
install the following:
.. literalinclude:: homebrew.txt
Some Homebrew packages are installed "keg-only," meaning that they are
not available in standard paths. To make them accessible when building
Sage, run ::
$ source SAGE_ROOT/.homebrew-build-env
(replacing ``SAGE_ROOT`` by Sage's home directory). You can add a
command like this to your shell profile if you want the settings to
persist between shell sessions.
Some additional optional packages are taken care of by:
.. literalinclude:: homebrew-optional.txt
.. _section_cygwinprereqs:
Cygwin prerequisite installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sage can be built only on the 64-bit version of Cygwin. See
``README.md`` for the most up-to-date instructions for building Sage
on Cygwin.
Although it is possible to install Sage's dependencies using the Cygwin
graphical installer, it is recommended to install the `apt-cyg
<https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg>`_ command-line package
installer, which is used for the remainder of these instructions. To
run ``apt-cyg``, you must have already installed (using the graphical
installer) the following packages at a minimum::
bzip2 coreutils gawk gzip tar wget
With the exception of ``wget`` most of these are included in the default
package selection when you install Cygwin. Then, to install ``apt-cyg``
run::
$ curl -OL https://rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
$ install apt-cyg /usr/local/bin
$ rm -f apt-cyg
To install the current set of system packages known to work for building
Sage, run:
.. literalinclude:: cygwin.txt
Optional packages that are also known to be installable via system packages
include:
.. literalinclude:: cygwin-optional.txt
Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) prerequisite installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sage can be installed onto linux running on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). These instructions describe a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.10, but other distibutions or installation methods should work too, though have not been tested.
- Enable hardware-assisted virtualization in the EFI or BIOS of your system. Refer to your system (or motherboard) maker's documentation for instructions on how to do this.
- Set up WSL by following the `official WSL setup guide <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10>`_. Be sure to do the steps to install WSL2 and set it as default.
- Go to the Microsoft Store and install Ubuntu.
- Start Ubuntu from the start menu. Update all packages to the latest version.
- Reboot the all running WSL instances one of the following ways:
- Open Windows Services and restart the LxssManager service.
- Open the Command Prompt or Powershell and enter this command::
wsl --shutdown
- `Upgrade to the Ubuntu 20.10 <https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-to-20-10>`_. This step will not be necessary once Ubuntu 20.10 is available in the Microsoft Store.
From this point on, follow the instructions in the :ref:`sec-installation-from-sources-linux-recommended-installation` section.
When the installation is complete, you may be interested in :ref:`sec-launching-wsl-post-installation`.
Other platforms
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On Solaris, you would use ``pkgadd`` and on OpenSolaris ``ipf`` to install
the necessary software.
On other systems, check the documentation for your particular operating system.
.. _section_conda_compilers:
Using conda to provide system dependencies
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If Conda is installed (check by typing ``conda info``), there are two ways to
prepare for installing SageMath from source:
- If you are using a git checkout::
$ ./bootstrap
- Create a new empty environment and activate::
$ conda create -n sage-build
$ conda activate sage-build
- Install standard packages recognized by sage's ``spkg-configure`` mechanism::
$ conda env update --file environment.yml -n sage-build
- Or install all standard and optional packages recognized by sage::
$ conda env update --file environment-optional.yml -n sage-build
- Then SageMath will be built using the compilers provided by Conda::
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --prefix=$CONDA_PREFIX
$ make
Using conda to provide all SPKGs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Note that this is an experimental feature and may not work as intended.
- If you are using a git checkout::
$ ./bootstrap
- Create a new empty environment and activate::
$ conda create -n sage
$ conda activate sage
- Install standard packages::
$ conda env update --file src/environment.yml -n sage
- Or install all standard and optional packages::
$ conda env update --file src/environment-optional.yml -n sage
- Then SageMath will be built using the compilers provided by Conda::
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --prefix=$CONDA_PREFIX
$ cd src
$ python setup.py install
Note that ``make`` is not used at all. All dependencies
(including all Python packages) are provided by conda.
Thus, you will get a working version of Sage much faster. However,
note that this will invalidate the use of Sage-the-distribution
commands such as ``sage -i`` because sage-the-distribution does not
know about the dependencies unlike in the previous section where
it did.
Notes on using conda
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you don't want conda to be used by sage, deactivate conda (for the current shell session).
- Type::
$ conda deactivate
- Repeat the command until ``conda info`` shows::
$ conda info
active environment : None
...
Then SageMath will be built either using the compilers provided by the
operating system, or its own compilers.
Specific notes for ``make`` and ``tar``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On macOS, the system-wide BSD ``tar`` supplied will build Sage, so there is no
need to install the GNU ``tar``.
On Solaris or OpenSolaris, the Sun/Oracle versions of ``make`` and ``tar`` are
unsuitable for building Sage.
Therefore, you must have the GNU versions of ``make`` and ``tar`` installed and
they must be the first ``make`` and ``tar`` in your :envvar:`PATH`.
On Solaris 10, a version of GNU ``make`` may be found at
:file:`/usr/sfw/bin/gmake`,
but you will need to copy it somewhere else and rename it to ``make``.
The same is true for GNU ``tar``; a version of GNU ``tar`` may be found at
:file:`/usr/sfw/bin/gtar`,
but it will need to be copied somewhere else and renamed to ``tar``.
It is recommended to create a directory :file:`$HOME/bins-for-sage` and to put
the GNU versions of ``tar`` and ``make`` in that directory.
Then ensure that :file:`$HOME/bins-for-sage` is first in your :envvar:`PATH`.
That's because Sage also needs :file:`/usr/ccs/bin` in your :envvar:`PATH` to
execute programs like ``ar`` and ``ranlib``, but :file:`/usr/ccs/bin` has the
Sun/Oracle versions of ``make`` and ``tar`` in it.
If you attempt to build Sage on AIX or HP-UX, you will need to install both
GNU ``make`` and GNU ``tar``.
.. _section_compilers:
Using alternative compilers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sage developers tend to use fairly recent versions of GCC.
Nonetheless, the Sage build process on Linux
should succeed with any reasonable C/C++ compiler;
(we do not recommend GCC older than version 5.1).
This is because Sage will build GCC first (if needed) and then use that newly
built GCC to compile Sage.
If you don't want this and want to try building Sage with a different set of
compilers,
you need to pass Sage's ``./configure`` compiler names, via environment
variables ``CC``, ``CXX``, and ``FC``, for C, C++, and Fortran compilers,
respectively, e.g. if you C compiler is ``clang``, your C++ compiler is ``clang++``,
and your Fortran compiler is ``flang`` then you would need to run::
$ CC=clang CXX=clang++ FC=flang ./configure
before running ``make``. It is recommended that you inspect the output of ``./configure``
in order to check that Sage will not try to build GCC. Namely, there should be lines like::
gcc-7.2.0 will not be installed (configure check)
...
gfortran-7.2.0 will not be installed (configure check)
indicating that Sage will not attempt to build ``gcc/g++/gfortran``.
If you are interested in working on support for commercial compilers from
`HP <http://docs.hp.com/en/5966-9844/ch01s03.html>`_,
`IBM <http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/xlcpp/>`_,
`Intel <http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compilers/>`_,
`Sun/Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/overview/index.html>`_,
etc,
please email the sage-devel mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel.
Additional software
-------------------
Recommended programs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following programs are recommended.
They are not strictly required at build time or at run time,
but provide additional capabilities:
- **dvipng**.
- **ffmpeg**.
- **ImageMagick**.
- **LaTeX**: highly recommended.
It is highly recommended that you have
`LaTeX <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX>`_
installed, but it is not required.
The most popular packaging is `TeX Live <https://www.tug.org/texlive/>`_,
which can be installed following the directions on their web site.
On Linux systems you can alternatively install your distribution's
texlive packages::
$ sudo apt-get install texlive # debian
$ sudo yum install texlive # redhat
or similar commands. In addition to the base TeX Live install, you may
need some optional TeX Live packages, for example
country-specific babel packages for the localized Sage
documentation.
If you don't have either ImageMagick or ffmpeg, you won't be able to
view animations.
ffmpeg can produce animations in more different formats than ImageMagick,
and seems to be faster than ImageMagick when creating animated GIFs.
Either ImageMagick or dvipng is used for displaying some LaTeX output in the
Sage notebook.
On Debian/Ubuntu, the following system packages are recommended.
- ``texlive-generic-extra`` (to generate pdf documentation)
- ``texlive-xetex`` (to convert Jupyter notebooks to pdf)
- ``latexmk`` (to generate pdf documentation)
- ``pandoc`` (to convert Jupyter notebooks to pdf)
- ``dvipng`` (to render text with LaTeX in Matplotlib)
- ``default-jdk`` (to run the Jmol 3D viewer from the console and generate images for 3D plots in the documentation)
- ``ffmpeg`` (to produce animations)
- ``libavdevice-dev`` (to produce animations)
Notebook additional features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**attention: Sage's notebook is deprecated, and notebook() command has been removed. Use Jupyter notebook instead**
By default, the Sage notebook uses the
`HTTP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP>`_
protocol when you type the command ``notebook()``.
To run the notebook in secure mode by typing ``notebook(secure=True)`` which
uses the `HTTPS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS>`_ protocol,
or to use `OpenID <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID>`_ authentication,
you need to follow specific installation steps described in
:ref:`section_notebook_ssl`.
Although all necessary components are provided through Sage optional
packages, i.e., even if you choose not to install a systemwide version
of OpenSSL, you can install a local (Sage_specific) version of
`OpenSSL <https://www.openssl.org>`_ by using Sage's **openssl**
package and running ``sage -i openssl`` as suggested in
:ref:`section_notebook_ssl` (this requires an Internet
connection). Alternatively, you might prefer to install OpenSSL and
the OpenSSL development headers globally on your system, as described
above.
Finally, if you intend to distribute the notebook load onto several Sage
servers, you will surely want to setup an
`SSH <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH>`_ server and generate SSH keys.
This can be achieved using `OpenSSH <https://www.openssh.com/>`_.
On Linux systems, the OpenSSH server, client and utilities are usually provided
by the **openssh-server** and **openssh-client** packages and can be installed
using::
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client
or similar commands.
Tcl/Tk
~~~~~~
If you want to use `Tcl/Tk <https://www.tcl.tk/>`_ libraries in Sage,
you need to install the Tcl/Tk and its development headers before building
Sage.
Sage's Python will then automatically recognize your system's install of
Tcl/Tk.
On Linux systems, these are usually provided by the **tk** and **tk-dev**
(or **tk-devel**) packages which can be installed using::
$ sudo apt-get install tk tk-dev
or similar commands.
If you installed Sage first, all is not lost. You just need to rebuild
Sage's Python and any part of Sage relying on it::
$ sage -f python3 # rebuild Python3
$ make # rebuild components of Sage depending on Python
after installing the Tcl/Tk development libraries as above.
If
.. skip
.. CODE-BLOCK:: ipycon
sage: import _tkinter
sage: import Tkinter
does not raise an ``ImportError``, then it worked.
.. _build-from-source-step-by-step:
Step-by-step installation procedure
-----------------------------------
General procedure
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Installation from source is (potentially) very easy, because the distribution
contains (essentially) everything on which Sage depends.
Make sure there are **no spaces** in the path name for the directory in which
you build:
several of Sage's components will not build if there are spaces in the path.
Running Sage from a directory with spaces in its name will also fail.
#. Go to https://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html, select a mirror,
and download the file :file:`sage-x.y.tar.gz`.
This compressed archive file contains the source code for Sage and
the source for all programs on which Sage depends.
Download it into any directory you have write access to, preferably on a
fast filesystem, avoiding
`NFS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System>`_ and the like.
On personal computers, any subdirectory of your :envvar:`HOME` directory
should do. Note that once you have built Sage (by running ``make``,
as described below), you will not be able to move or rename its
directory without breaking Sage.
#. Extract the archive::
$ tar xvf sage-x.y.tar.gz
This creates a directory :file:`sage-x.y`.
#. Change into that directory::
$ cd sage-x.y
This is Sage's home directory.
It is also referred to as :envvar:`SAGE_ROOT` or the top level Sage
directory.
#. Optional, but highly recommended:
Read the :file:`README.md` file there.
#. Optional: Set various other environment variables that influence the
build process; see :ref:`section_envvar`.
Some environment variables deserve a special mention: :envvar:`CC`,
:envvar:`CXX` and :envvar:`FC`;
and on macOS, :envvar:`OBJC` and :envvar:`OBJCXX`. Those variables
defining your compilers
can be set at configuration time and their values will be recorded for
further use at runtime. Those initial values are over-ridden if Sage builds
its own compiler or they are set to a different value again before calling
Sage. Note that some packages will ignore the compiler settings and use
values deemed safe for that package on a particular OS.
#. Run the configure script to set some options that
influence the build process.
- Choose the installation hierarchy (:envvar:`SAGE_LOCAL`).
The default is the ``local`` subdirectory of :envvar:`SAGE_ROOT`::
$ ./configure --prefix=SAGE_LOCAL
Note that in Sage's build process, ``make`` builds **and**
installs (``make install`` is a no-op). Therefore the
installation hierarchy must be writable by the user.
- Other options are available; see::
$ ./configure --help
#. Start the build process::
$ make
or if your system supports multiprocessing and you want to use several
processes to build Sage::
$ MAKE='make -jNUM' make
to tell the ``make`` program to run ``NUM`` jobs in parallel when building
Sage. This compiles Sage and all its dependencies.
.. NOTE::
macOS allows changing directories without using exact capitalization.
Beware of this convenience when compiling for macOS. Ignoring exact
capitalization when changing into :envvar:`SAGE_ROOT` can lead to build
errors for dependencies requiring exact capitalization in path names.
Note that you do not need to be logged in as root, since no files are
changed outside of the :file:`sage-x.y` directory.
In fact, **it is inadvisable to build Sage as root**, as the root account
should only be used when absolutely necessary and mistyped commands can have
serious consequences if you are logged in as root.
There has been a bug reported (see :trac:`9551`) in Sage which would have
overwritten a system file had the user been logged in as root.
Typing ``make`` performs the usual steps for each Sage's dependency,
but installs all the resulting files into the local build tree.
Depending on the age and the architecture of your system, it can take from
a few tens of minutes to several hours to build Sage from source.
On really slow hardware, it can even take a few days to build Sage.
Each component of Sage has its own build log, saved in
:file:`SAGE_ROOT/logs/pkgs`.
If the build of Sage fails, you will see a message mentioning which
package(s) failed to build and the location of the log file for each
failed package.
If this happens, then paste the contents of these log file(s)
to the Sage support
newsgroup at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support.
If the log files are very large (and many are), then don't paste the whole
file, but make sure to include any error messages.
It would also be helpful to include the type of operating system
(Linux, macOS, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Cygwin, or any other system),
the version and release date of that operating system and the version of
the copy of Sage you are using.
(There are no formal requirements for bug reports -- just send them;
we appreciate everything.)
See :ref:`section_make` for some targets for the ``make`` command,
:ref:`section_envvar` for additional information on useful environment
variables used by Sage,
and :ref:`section_notebook_ssl` for additional instruction on how to build
the notebook with SSL support.
#. To start Sage, you can now simply type from Sage's home directory::
$ ./sage
You should see the Sage prompt, which will look something like this::
$ sage
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SageMath version 8.8, Release Date: 2019-06-26 │
│ Using Python 3.7.3. Type "help()" for help. │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
sage:
Note that Sage should take well under a minute when it starts for the first
time, but can take several minutes if the file system is slow or busy.
Since Sage opens a lot of files, it is preferable to install Sage on a fast
filesystem if possible.
Just starting successfully tests that many of the components built
correctly.
Note that this should have been already automatically tested during the
build process.
If the above is not displayed (e.g., if you get a massive traceback), please
report the problem, e.g., at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support.
After Sage has started, try a simple command:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: ipycon
sage: 2 + 2
4
Or something slightly more complicated:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: ipycon
sage: factor(2005)
5 * 401
#. Optional, but highly recommended:
Test the install by typing ``./sage --testall``.
This runs most examples in the source code and makes sure that they run
exactly as claimed.
To test all examples, use ``./sage --testall --optional=all --long``;
this will run examples that take a long time, and those that depend on
optional packages and software, e.g., Mathematica or Magma.
Some (optional) examples will therefore likely fail.
Alternatively, from within :file:`$SAGE_ROOT`, you can type ``make test``
(respectively ``make ptest``) to run all the standard test code serially
(respectively in parallel).
Testing the Sage library can take from half an hour to several hours,
depending on your hardware.
On slow hardware building and testing Sage can even take several days!
#. Optional:
Check the interfaces to any other software that you have available.
Note that each interface calls its corresponding program by a particular
name: `Mathematica <https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/>`_ is invoked by
calling ``math``, `Maple <https://www.maplesoft.com/>`_ by calling ``maple``,
etc.
The easiest way to change this name or perform other customizations is
to create a redirection script in :file:`$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin`.
Sage inserts this directory at the front of your :envvar:`PATH`, so your
script may need to use an absolute path to avoid calling itself; also, your
script should pass along all of its arguments.
For example, a ``maple`` script might look like:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/maple10.2/maple.tty "$@"
#. Optional:
There are different possibilities to make using Sage a little easier:
- Make a symbolic link from :file:`/usr/local/bin/sage` (or another
directory in your :envvar:`PATH`) to :file:`$SAGE_ROOT/sage`::
$ ln -s /path/to/sage-x.y/sage /usr/local/bin/sage
Now simply typing ``sage`` from any directory should be sufficient to run
Sage.
- Copy :file:`$SAGE_ROOT/sage` to a location in your :envvar:`PATH`.
If you do this, make sure you edit the line:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
#SAGE_ROOT=/path/to/sage-version
at the beginning of the copied ``sage`` script according to the direction
given there to something like:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
SAGE_ROOT=<SAGE_ROOT>
(note that you have to change ``<SAGE_ROOT>`` above!).
It is best to edit only the copy, not the original.
- For `KDE <https://www.kde.org/>`_ users, create a bash script called
``sage`` containing the lines
(note that you have to change ``<SAGE_ROOT>`` below!):
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
konsole -T "sage" -e <SAGE_ROOT>/sage
make it executable::
$ chmod a+x sage
and put it somewhere in your :envvar:`PATH`.
You can also make a KDE desktop icon with this line as the command
(under the Application tab of the Properties of the icon, which you get my
right clicking the mouse on the icon).
- On Linux and macOS systems, you can make an alias to
:file:`$SAGE_ROOT/sage`.
For example, put something similar to the following line in your
:file:`.bashrc` file:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
alias sage=<SAGE_ROOT>/sage
(Note that you have to change ``<SAGE_ROOT>`` above!)
Having done so, quit your terminal emulator and restart it.
Now typing ``sage`` within your terminal emulator should start Sage.
#. Optional:
Install optional Sage packages and databases.
Type ``sage --optional`` to see a list of them (this requires an Internet
connection), or visit https://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional/.
Then type ``sage -i <package-name>`` to automatically download and install
a given package.
#. Optional:
Run the ``install_scripts`` command from within Sage to create GAP, GP,
Maxima, Singular, etc., scripts in your :envvar:`PATH`.
Type ``install_scripts?`` in Sage for details.
#. Have fun! Discover some amazing conjectures!
.. _section_notebook_ssl:
Building the notebook with SSL support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Read this section if you are intending to run a Sage notebook server for
multiple users.
For security, you may wish users to access the server using the HTTPS protocol
(i.e., to run ``notebook(secure=True)``).
You also may want to use OpenID for user authentication.
The first of these requires you to install
`pyOpenSSL <https://pyopenssl.org/>`_,
and they both require OpenSSL.
If you have OpenSSL and the OpenSSL development headers installed on your
system, you can install pyOpenSSL by building Sage and then typing::
$ ./sage -i pyopenssl
Alternatively, ``make ssl`` builds Sage and installs pyOpenSSL at once.
Note that these commands require Internet access.
If you are missing either OpenSSL or OpenSSL's development headers,
you can install a local copy of both into your Sage installation first.
Ideally, this should be done before installing Sage; otherwise, you should at
least rebuild Sage's Python, and ideally any part of Sage relying on it.
The procedure is as follows (again, with a computer connected to the
Internet).
Starting from a fresh Sage tarball::
$ ./sage -i openssl
$ make ssl
And if you've already built Sage::
$ ./sage -i openssl
$ ./sage -f python3
$ make ssl
The third line will rebuild all parts of Sage that depend on Python;
this can take a while.
Rebasing issues on Cygwin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Building on Cygwin will occasionally require "rebasing" ``dll`` files.
Sage provides some scripts, located in :file:`$SAGE_LOCAL/bin`, to do so:
- ``sage-rebaseall.sh``, a shell script which calls Cygwin's ``rebaseall``
program.
It must be run within a ``dash`` shell from the :envvar:`SAGE_ROOT` directory
after all other Cygwin processes have been shut down and needs write-access
to the system-wide rebase database located at :file:`/etc/rebase.db.i386`,
which usually means administrator privileges.
It updates the system-wide database and adds Sage dlls to it, so that
subsequent calls to ``rebaseall`` will take them into account.
- ``sage-rebase.sh``, a shell script which calls Cygwin's ``rebase`` program
together with the ``-O/--oblivious`` option.
It must be run within a shell from :envvar:`SAGE_ROOT` directory.
Contrary to the ``sage-rebaseall.sh`` script, it neither updates the
system-wide database, nor adds Sage dlls to it.
Therefore, subsequent calls to ``rebaseall`` will not take them into account.
- ``sage-rebaseall.bat`` (respectively ``sage-rebase.bat``), an MS-DOS batch
file which calls the ``sage-rebaseall.sh`` (respectively ``sage-rebase.sh``)
script.
It must be run from a Windows command prompt, after adjusting
:envvar:`SAGE_ROOT` to the Windows location of Sage's home directory, and, if
Cygwin is installed in a non-standard location, adjusting
:envvar:`CYGWIN_ROOT` as well.
Some systems may encounter this problem frequently enough to make building or
testing difficult.
If executing the above scripts or directly calling ``rebaseall`` does not solve
rebasing issues, deleting the system-wide database and then regenerating it
from scratch, e.g., by executing ``sage-rebaseall.sh``, might help.
Finally, on Cygwin, one should also avoid the following:
- building in home directories of Windows domain users;
- building in paths with capital letters
(see :trac:`13343`, although there has been some success doing so).
.. _section_make:
Make targets
------------
To build Sage from scratch, you would typically execute ``make`` in Sage's home
directory to build Sage and its `HTML <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML>`_
documentation.
The ``make`` command is pretty smart, so if your build of Sage is interrupted,
then running ``make`` again should cause it to pick up where it left off.
The ``make`` command can also be given options, which control what is built and
how it is built:
- ``make build`` builds Sage: it compiles all of the Sage packages.
It does not build the documentation.
- ``make doc`` builds Sage's documentation in HTML format.
Note that this requires that Sage be built first, so it will automatically
run ``make build`` first.
Thus, running ``make doc`` is equivalent to running ``make``.
- ``make doc-pdf`` builds Sage's documentation in PDF format. This also
requires that Sage be built first, so it will automatically run ``make
build``.
- ``make doc-html-no-plot`` builds Sage's documentation in html format
but skips the inclusion of graphics auto-generated using the
``.. PLOT`` markup and the ``sphinx_plot`` function. This is
primarily intended for use when producing certain binary
distributions of Sage, to lower the size of the distribution. As of
this writing (December 2014, Sage 6.5), there are only a few such
plots, adding about 4M to the :file:`local/share/doc/sage/` directory.
In the future, this may grow, of course. Note: after using this, if you
want to build the documentation and include the pictures, you should
run ``make doc-clean``, because the presence, or lack, of pictures
is cached in the documentation output.
You can benefit from this no-plot feature with other make targets by doing
``export SAGE_DOCBUILD_OPTS+=' --no-plot'``
- ``make ptest`` and ``make ptestlong``: these run Sage's test suite.
The first version skips tests that need more than a few seconds to complete
and those which depend on optional packages or additional software.
The second version includes the former, and so it takes longer.
The "p" in ``ptest`` stands for "parallel": tests are run in parallel.
If you want to run tests serially, you can use ``make test`` or
``make testlong`` instead.
If you want to run tests depending on optional packages and additional
software, you can use ``make testall``, ``make ptestall``,
``make testalllong``, or ``make ptestalllong``.
- ``make doc-clean`` removes several directories which are produced
when building the documentation.
- ``make distclean`` restores the Sage directory to its state before doing any
building: it is almost equivalent to deleting Sage's entire home directory and
unpacking the source tarfile again, the only difference being that the
:file:`.git` directory is preserved, so git branches are not deleted.
.. _section_envvar:
Environment variables
---------------------
Sage uses several environment variables to control its build process.
Most users won't need to set any of these: the build process just works on many
platforms.
(Note though that setting :envvar:`MAKE`, as described below, can significantly
speed up the process.)
Building Sage involves building about 100 packages, each of which has its own
compilation instructions.
The Sage source tarball already includes the sources for all standard
packages, that is, it allows you to build Sage without internet
connection. The git repository, however, does not contain the source
code for third-party packages. Instead, it will be downloaded as
needed (Note: you can run ``make download`` to force downloading
packages before building). Package downloads use the Sage mirror
network, the nearest mirror will be determined automatically for
you. This is influenced by the following environment variable:
- :envvar:`SAGE_SERVER` - Try the specified mirror first, before
falling back to the official Sage mirror list. Note that Sage will
search the directory
- ``SAGE_SERVER/spkg/upstream``
for upstream tarballs.
Here are some of the more commonly used variables affecting the build process:
- :envvar:`MAKE` - one useful setting for this variable when building Sage is
``MAKE='make -jNUM'`` to tell the ``make`` program to run ``NUM`` jobs in
parallel when building.
Note that not all Sage packages (e.g. ATLAS) support this variable.
Some people advise using more jobs than there are CPU cores, at least if the
system is not heavily loaded and has plenty of RAM; for example, a good
setting for ``NUM`` might be between 1 and 1.5 times the number of cores.
In addition, the ``-l`` option sets a load limit: ``MAKE='make -j4 -l5.5``,
for example, tells ``make`` to try to use four jobs, but to not start more
than one job if the system load average is above 5.5.
See the manual page for GNU ``make``: `Command-line options
<https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Options-Summary>`_
and `Parallel building
<https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Parallel>`_.
.. warning::
Some users on single-core macOS machines have reported problems when
building Sage with ``MAKE='make -jNUM'`` with ``NUM`` greater than one.
- :envvar:`SAGE_NUM_THREADS` - if set to a number, then when building the
documentation, parallel doctesting, or running ``sage -b``, use this many
threads.
If this is not set, then determine the number of threads using the value of
the :envvar:`MAKE` (see above) or :envvar:`MAKEFLAGS` environment variables.
If none of these specifies a number of jobs, use one thread (except for
parallel testing: there we use a default of the number of CPU cores, with a
maximum of 8 and a minimum of 2).
- :envvar:`V` - if set to ``0``, silence the build. Instead of
showing a detailed compilation log, only one line of output is shown
at the beginning and at the end of the installation of each Sage
package. To see even less output, use::
$ make -s V=0
(Note that the above uses the syntax of setting a Makefile variable.)
- :envvar:`SAGE_CHECK` - if set to ``yes``, then during the build process,
or when installing packages manually,
run the test suite for each package which has one, and stop with an error
if tests are failing. If set to ``warn``, then only a warning is printed
in this case.
See also :envvar:`SAGE_CHECK_PACKAGES`.
- :envvar:`SAGE_CHECK_PACKAGES` - if :envvar:`SAGE_CHECK` is set to ``yes``,
then the default behavior is to run test suites for all spkgs which contain
them.
If :envvar:`SAGE_CHECK_PACKAGES` is set, it should be a comma-separated list
of strings of the form ``package-name`` or ``!package-name``.
An entry ``package-name`` means to run the test suite for the named package
regardless of the setting of :envvar:`SAGE_CHECK`.
An entry ``!package-name`` means to skip its test suite.
So if this is set to ``mpir,!python3``, then always run the test suite for
MPIR, but always skip the test suite for Python 3.
.. note::
As of Sage 9.1, the test suites for the Python 2 and 3 spkgs fail
on most platforms. So when this variable is empty or unset, Sage
uses a default of ``!python2,!python3``.
- :envvar:`SAGE_INSTALL_GCC` - **Obsolete, do not use, to be removed**
- :envvar:`SAGE_INSTALL_CCACHE` - by default Sage doesn't install ccache,
however by setting ``SAGE_INSTALL_CCACHE=yes`` Sage will install ccache.
Because the Sage distribution is quite large, the maximum cache is set to 4G.
This can be changed by running ``sage -sh -c "ccache --max-size=SIZE"``,
where ``SIZE`` is specified in gigabytes, megabytes, or kilobytes by
appending a "G", "M", or "K".
Sage does not include the sources for ccache since it is an optional package.
Because of this, it is necessary to have an Internet connection while
building ccache for Sage, so that Sage can pull down the necessary
sources.
- .. _sage_debug:
:envvar:`SAGE_DEBUG` - controls debugging support.
There are three different possible values:
* Not set (or set to anything else than "yes" or "no"): build binaries with
debugging symbols, but no special debug builds.
This is the default.
There is no performance impact, only additional disk space is used.
* ``SAGE_DEBUG=no``: ``no`` means no debugging symbols (that is, no
``gcc -g``), which saves some disk space.
* ``SAGE_DEBUG=yes``: build debug versions if possible (in particular,
Python is built with additional debugging turned on and Singular is built
with a different memory manager).
These will be notably slower but, for example, make it much easier to
pinpoint memory allocation problems.
Instead of using :envvar:`SAGE_DEBUG` one can configure with
``--enable-debug={no|symbols|yes}``.
- :envvar:`SAGE_PROFILE` - controls profiling support. If this is set
to ``yes``, profiling support is enabled where possible. Note that
Python-level profiling is always available; This option enables
profiling in Cython modules.
- :envvar:`SAGE_SPKG_INSTALL_DOCS` - if set to ``yes``, then install
package-specific documentation to
:file:`$SAGE_ROOT/local/share/doc/PACKAGE_NAME/` when an spkg is
installed.
This option may not be supported by all spkgs.
Some spkgs might also assume that certain programs are available on the
system (for example, ``latex`` or ``pdflatex``).
- :envvar:`SAGE_DOC_MATHJAX` - by default, any LaTeX code in Sage's
documentation is processed by MathJax.
If this variable is set to ``no``, then MathJax is not used -- instead,
math is processed using LaTeX and converted by dvipng to image files,
and then those files are included into the documentation.
Typically, building the documentation using LaTeX and dvipng takes longer
and uses more memory and disk space than using MathJax.
- :envvar:`SAGE_DOCBUILD_OPTS` - the value of this variable is passed as an
argument to ``sage --docbuild all html`` or ``sage --docbuild all pdf`` when
you run ``make``, ``make doc``, or ``make doc-pdf``.
For example, you can add ``--no-plot`` to this variable to avoid building
the graphics coming from the ``.. PLOT`` directive within the documentation,
or you can add ``--include-tests-blocks`` to include all "TESTS" blocks in the
reference manual. Run ``sage --docbuild help`` to see the full list
of options.
- :envvar:`SAGE_BUILD_DIR` - the default behavior is to build each spkg in a
subdirectory of :file:`$SAGE_ROOT/local/var/tmp/sage/build/`; for
example, build version 3.8.3.p12 of
:file:`atlas` in the directory
:file:`$SAGE_ROOT/local/var/tmp/sage/build/atlas-3.8.3.p12/`.
If this variable is set, then build in
:file:`$SAGE_BUILD_DIR/atlas-3.8.3.p12/` instead.
If the directory :file:`$SAGE_BUILD_DIR` does not exist, it is created.
As of this writing (Sage 4.8), when building the standard Sage packages,
1.5 gigabytes of free space are required in this directory (or more if
``SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS=yes`` -- see below); the exact amount of required
space varies from platform to platform.
For example, the block size of the file system will affect the amount of
space used, since some spkgs contain many small files.
.. warning::
The variable :envvar:`SAGE_BUILD_DIR` must be set to the full path name
of either an existing directory for which the user has write permissions,
or to the full path name of a nonexistent directory which the user has
permission to create.
The path name must contain **no spaces**.
- :envvar:`SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS` - the default behavior is to delete each
build directory -- the appropriate subdirectory of
:file:`$SAGE_ROOT/local/var/tmp/sage/build` or
:file:`$SAGE_BUILD_DIR` -- after each spkg
is successfully built, and to keep it if there were errors installing the
spkg.
Set this variable to ``yes`` to keep the subdirectory regardless.
Furthermore, if you install an spkg for which there is already a
corresponding subdirectory, for example left over from a previous build,
then the default behavior is to delete that old subdirectory.
If this variable is set to ``yes``, then the old subdirectory is moved to
:file:`$SAGE_ROOT/local/var/tmp/sage/build/old/` (or
:file:`$SAGE_BUILD_DIR/old`),
overwriting any already existing file or directory with the same name.
.. note::
After a full build of Sage (as of version 4.8), these subdirectories can
take up to 6 gigabytes of storage, in total, depending on the platform
and the block size of the file system.
If you always set this variable to ``yes``, it can take even more space:
rebuilding every spkg would use double the amount of space, and any
upgrades to spkgs would create still more directories, using still more
space.
.. note::
In an existing Sage installation, running ``sage -i -s <package-name>``
or ``sage -f -s <package-name>`` installs the spkg ``<package-name>`` and
keeps the corresponding build directory; thus setting
:envvar:`SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS` to ``yes`` mimics this behavior when
building Sage from scratch or when installing individual spkgs.
So you can set this variable to ``yes`` instead of using the ``-s`` flag
for ``sage -i`` and ``sage -f``.
- .. _sage_fat_binary:
:envvar:`SAGE_FAT_BINARY` - to build binaries that will run on the
widest range of target CPUs set this variable to ``yes`` before
building Sage or configure with ``--enable-fat-binary``.
This does not make the binaries relocatable, it only
avoids newer CPU instruction set extensions. For relocatable (=can
be moved to a different directory) binaries, you must use
https://github.com/sagemath/binary-pkg
- :envvar:`SAGE_SUDO` - set this to ``sudo -E`` or to any other
command prefix that is necessary to write into a installation
hierarchy (:envvar:`SAGE_LOCAL`) owned by root or another user.
Note that this command needs to preserve environment variable
settings (plain ``sudo`` does not).
Not all Sage packages currently support :envvar:`SAGE_SUDO`.
Therefore this environment variable is most useful when a system
administrator wishes to install an additional Sage package that
supports :envvar:`SAGE_SUDO`, into a root-owned installation
hierarchy (:envvar:`SAGE_LOCAL`).
Environment variables dealing with specific Sage packages:
- :envvar:`SAGE_MP_LIBRARY` - to use an alternative library in place of ``MPIR``
for multiprecision integer arithmetic. Supported values are
``MPIR`` (default choice), ``GMP``.
- :envvar:`SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH` - if you are compiling ATLAS (in particular,
if :envvar:`SAGE_ATLAS_LIB` is not set), you can use this environment
variable to set a particular architecture and instruction set extension,
to control the maximum number of threads ATLAS can use, and to trigger the
installation of a static library (which is disabled by default unless
building our custom shared libraries fails).
The syntax is
``SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=[threads:n,][static,]arch[,isaext1][,isaext2]...[,isaextN]``.
While ATLAS comes with precomputed timings for a variety of CPUs, it only
uses them if it finds an exact match.
Otherwise, ATLAS runs through a lengthy automated tuning process in order
to optimize performance for your particular system, which can take several
days on slow and unusual systems.
You drastically reduce the total Sage compile time if you manually select a
suitable architecture.
It is recommended to specify a suitable architecture on laptops or other
systems with CPU throttling or if you want to distribute the binaries.
Available architectures are
``POWER3``, ``POWER4``, ``POWER5``, ``PPCG4``, ``PPCG5``,
``POWER6``, ``POWER7``, ``IBMz9``, ``IBMz10``, ``IBMz196``,
``x86x87``, ``x86SSE1``, ``x86SSE2``, ``x86SSE3``, ``P5``,
``P5MMX``, ``PPRO``, ``PII``, ``PIII``, ``PM``, ``CoreSolo``,
``CoreDuo``, ``Core2Solo``, ``Core2``, ``Corei1``, ``Corei2``,
``Atom``, ``P4``, ``P4E``, ``Efficeon``, ``K7``, ``HAMMER``,
``AMD64K10h``, ``AMDDOZER``, ``UNKNOWNx86``, ``IA64Itan``,
``IA64Itan2``, ``USI``, ``USII``, ``USIII``, ``USIV``, ``UST2``,
``UnknownUS``, ``MIPSR1xK``, ``MIPSICE9``, ``ARMv7``.
and instruction set extensions are
``VSX``, ``AltiVec``, ``AVXMAC``, ``AVXFMA4``, ``AVX``, ``SSE3``,
``SSE2``, ``SSE1``, ``3DNow``, ``NEON``.
In addition, you can also set
- ``SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=fast`` which picks defaults for a modern (2-3 year old)
CPU of your processor line, and
- ``SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=base`` which picks defaults that should work for a ~10
year old CPU.
For example,
``SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=Corei2,AVX,SSE3,SSE2,SSE1``
would be appropriate for a Core i7 CPU.
- :envvar:`SAGE_ATLAS_LIB` - if you have an installation of ATLAS on your
system and you want Sage to use it instead of building and installing its
own version of ATLAS, set this variable to be the directory containing your
ATLAS installation.
It should contain the files :file:`libatlas`, :file:`liblapack`,
:file:`libcblas`, :file:`libf77blas` (and optionally :file:`libptcblas` and
:file:`libptf77blas` for multi-threaded computations), with extensions ``.a``,
``.so``, or ``.dylib``. For backward compatibility, the libraries may also be
in the subdirectory :file:`SAGE_ATLAS_LIB/lib/`.
- :envvar:`SAGE_MATPLOTLIB_GUI` - if set to anything non-empty except ``no``,
then Sage will attempt to build the graphical backend when it builds the
matplotlib package.
- :envvar:`PARI_CONFIGURE` - use this to pass extra parameters to
PARI's ``Configure`` script, for example to specify graphics
support (which is disabled by default). See the file
:file:`build/pkgs/pari/spkg-install` for more information.
- :envvar:`SAGE_TUNE_PARI`: If yes, enable PARI self-tuning. Note that
this can be time-consuming. If you set this variable to "yes", you
will also see this: ``WARNING: Tuning PARI/GP is unreliable. You may
find your build of PARI fails, or PARI/GP does not work properly
once built. We recommend to build this package with
SAGE_CHECK="yes".``
- :envvar:`PARI_MAKEFLAGS`: The value of this variable is passed as an
argument to the ``$MAKE`` command when compiling PARI.
Some standard environment variables which are used by Sage:
- :envvar:`CC` - while some programs allow you to use this to specify your C
compiler, **not every Sage package recognizes this**.
If GCC is installed within Sage, :envvar:`CC` is ignored and Sage's ``gcc``
is used instead.
- :envvar:`CPP` - similarly, this will set the C preprocessor for some Sage
packages, and similarly, using it is likely quite risky.
If GCC is installed within Sage, :envvar:`CPP` is ignored and Sage's ``cpp``
is used instead.
- :envvar:`CXX` - similarly, this will set the C++ compiler for some Sage
packages, and similarly, using it is likely quite risky.
If GCC is installed within Sage, :envvar:`CXX` is ignored and Sage's ``g++``
is used instead.
- :envvar:`FC` - similarly, this will set the Fortran compiler.
This is supported by all Sage packages which have Fortran code.
However, for historical reasons, the value is hardcoded during the initial
``make`` and subsequent changes to ``$FC`` might be ignored (in which case,
the original value will be used instead).
If GCC is installed within Sage, :envvar:`FC` is ignored and Sage's
``gfortran`` is used instead.
- :envvar:`CFLAGS`, :envvar:`CXXFLAGS` and :envvar:`FCFLAGS` - the flags for
the C compiler, the C++ compiler and the Fortran compiler, respectively.
The same comments apply to these: setting them may cause problems, because
they are not universally respected among the Sage packages. Note
also that ``export CFLAGS=""`` does not have the same effect as
``unset CFLAGS``. The latter is preferable.
- Similar comments apply to other compiler and linker flags like
:envvar:`CPPFLAGS`, :envvar:`LDFLAGS`, :envvar:`CXXFLAG64`,
:envvar:`LDFLAG64`, and :envvar:`LD`.
- :envvar:`OPENBLAS_CONFIGURE` - adds additional configuration flags for
the OpenBLAS package that gets added to the make command. (see :trac:`23272`)
Sage uses the following environment variables when it runs:
- :envvar:`DOT_SAGE` - this is the directory, to which the user has read and
write access, where Sage stores a number of files.
The default location is :file:`$HOME/.sage/`.
- :envvar:`SAGE_STARTUP_FILE` - a file including commands to be executed every
time Sage starts.
The default value is :file:`$DOT_SAGE/init.sage`.
- :envvar:`BROWSER` - on most platforms, Sage will detect the command to
run a web browser, but if this doesn't seem to work on your machine, set this
variable to the appropriate command.
Variables dealing with doctesting:
- :envvar:`SAGE_TIMEOUT` - used for Sage's doctesting: the number of seconds
to allow a doctest before timing it out.
If this isn't set, the default is 300 seconds (5 minutes).
- :envvar:`SAGE_TIMEOUT_LONG` - used for Sage's doctesting: the number of
seconds to allow a doctest before timing it out, if tests are run using
``sage -t --long``.
If this isn't set, the default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
- :envvar:`SAGE_TEST_GLOBAL_ITER`, :envvar:`SAGE_TEST_ITER`: these can
be used instead of passing the flags ``--global-iterations`` and
``--file-iterations``, respectively, to ``sage -t``. Indeed, these
variables are only used if the flags are unset. Run ``sage -t -h``
for more information on the effects of these flags (and therefore
these variables).
Sage sets some other environment variables. The most accurate way to
see what Sage does is to first run ``env`` from a shell prompt to see
what environment variables you have set. Then run ``sage --sh -c
env`` to see the list after Sage sets its variables. (This runs a
separate shell, executes the shell command ``env``, and then exits
that shell, so after running this, your settings will be restored.)
Alternatively, you can peruse the shell script
:file:`src/bin/sage-env`.
Sage also has some environment-like settings. Some of these correspond
to actual environment variables while others have names like
environment variables but are only available while Sage is running. To
see a list, execute ``sage.env.[TAB]`` while running Sage.
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Variables dealing with valgrind and friends:
- :envvar:`SAGE_TIMEOUT_VALGRIND` - used for Sage's doctesting: the
number of seconds to allow a doctest before timing it out, if tests
are run using ``??``. If this isn't set, the default is 1024*1024
seconds.
- :envvar:`SAGE_VALGRIND` - trigger black magic in Python.
- :envvar:`SAGE_MEMCHECK_FLAGS`, :envvar:`SAGE_MASSIF_FLAGS`,
:envvar:`SAGE_CACHEGRIND_FLAGS`, :envvar:`SAGE_OMEGA_FLAGS` - flags
used when using valgrind and one of the tools "memcheck", "massif",
"cachegrind", or "omega"
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Installation in a Multiuser Environment
---------------------------------------
This section addresses the question of how a system administrator can install
a single copy of Sage in a multi-user computer network.
System-wide install
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the instructions below, we assume that ``/path/to/sage-x.y`` is
the directory where you want to install Sage.
#. First of all, extract the Sage source tarball in ``/path/to``
(this will create the directory ``/path/to/sage-x.y``).
After extracting, you can change the directory name if you do not
like ``sage-x.y``.
#. Change the ownership of the ``/path/to/sage-x.y`` directory tree
to your normal user account (as opposed to ``root``). This is because
Sage will refuse to compile as ``root``. ::
$ chown -R user:group /path/to/sage-x.y
#. Using your normal user account, build Sage.
See the :ref:`build-from-source-step-by-step` above.
#. Make a symbolic link to the ``sage`` script in :file:`/usr/local/bin`::
$ ln -s /path/to/sage-x.y/sage /usr/local/bin/sage
Alternatively, copy the Sage script::
$ cp /path/to/sage-x.y/sage /usr/local/bin/sage
If you do this, make sure you edit the line:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
#SAGE_ROOT=/path/to/sage-version
at the beginning of the copied ``sage`` script according to the direction
given there to something like:
.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash
SAGE_ROOT=<SAGE_ROOT>
(note that you have to change ``<SAGE_ROOT>`` above!).
It is recommended not to edit the original ``sage`` script, only the copy at
:file:`/usr/local/bin/sage`.
#. Optionally, you can test Sage by running::
$ make testlong
or ``make ptestlong`` which tests files in parallel using multiple
processes.
You can also omit ``long`` to skip tests which take a long time.
**This page was last updated in December 2020 (Sage 9.3).**