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  1. Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under
  2. the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages
  3. into a common Python-based interface.
  4. Sage can be used in several ways: through an interactive command line,
  5. by writing stand-alone scripts, through the graphical notebook
  6. interface in a browser, or through the KDE Cantor application (part
  7. of a full Slackware installation).
  8. This SlackBuild repackages an already-built binary package which
  9. exceeds 1.5GB in size, and the resulting Slackware package uses >5GB
  10. disk space.
  11. To upgrade from the previous source-built Sage package from SBo, use
  12. the upgradepkg command like this:
  13. upgradepkg sage%sage-bin-8.3-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
  14. After installing or upgrading, you will need to logout or reboot so
  15. that sage is found in your path.
  16. Sage's default colour scheme is for a terminal with a light background.
  17. For a dark backgrounded terminal you may prefer the scheme after
  18. issuing:
  19. mkdir -p ~/.sage; echo "%colors Linux" >> ~/.sage/init.sage
  20. For 32-bit i686, the most recent binary package is version 8.2. You can
  21. download sage-8.2-Debian_GNU_Linux_8-i686.tar.bz2 and then use this
  22. SlackBuild as follows:
  23. VERSION=8.2 DEBVERSION=8 ARCH=i686 ./sage-bin.SlackBuild