I like to have the latest version of software. However, with Sage, it seems I need to re-download the entire application to get the latest version, which takes hundreds of megabytes and quite a long time.
Is there a less resource-intensive way to update Sage?
I'm running the "app" version on Mac OS X 10.7.4, for what it's worth.
There is an update feature, which one should be careful with, but which will usually work, even with binaries.
sage -upgrade
You'd still have to have the right compilers and so forth to do this. It works best between fully released versions. I'm going to try it now from Sage 4.8 to 5.1!
Otherwise there isn't really a good option. The problem is that Sage has so many high-quality components that only really play nicely together inside of Sage, so other updating mechanisms do not work so well.
continues : The following package(s) may have failed to build (not necessarily during this run of 'make all-start'):
The build directory may contain configuration files and other potentially helpful information. WARNING: if you now run 'make' again, the build directory will, by default, be deleted. Set the environment variable SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS to 'yes' to prevent this.
continues: Makefile:31: recipe for target 'all-start' failed make[1]: * [all-start] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/javi/SageMath' Makefile:13: recipe for target 'all' failed make: * [all] Error 2 javi@javi-ThinkPad-E480 11:42:47 ~ > sage Forcing sage-location, probably because a new package was installed. Cleaning up, do not interrupt this. Done cleaning.
Asked: 2012-07-11 17:29:40 +0200
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Last updated: Mar 04 '19
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