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Command-line tools should be enough.

Suggested commands to build Sage:

make configure
./configure
make openssl
make -s V=0

Some SageMath functionality is improved when extra software is available, e.g. imagemagick and ffmpeg help make animations out of Sage graphics.

The html documentation will be built and can be browsed locally at this local url:

file:///path/to/sagedir/local/share/doc/sage/html/en/installation

where /path/to/sagedir should be replaced with the actual full path to the Sage directory, which depending on where Sage was installed could be /Users/username/SageMath or /opt/sagemath or /Applications/SageMath or whatever location was chosen.

To compile the pdf documentation, a working LaTeX installation is required, such as the one provided by TeXLive or MacTeX, with babel language files for various languages.

Sage installs its own Python and all the Python libraries it needs. Extra Python packages can be installed by running

sage --pip install something

and other extra software by running

sage -i something

Let us know what version of SageMath builds there. Happy to recommend extra software depending on particular area of math.