_prereq: Represents system packages required for installing SageMath from source

Description

This dummy package represents the minimal requirements (system packages) for installing SageMath from source.

In addition to standard POSIX utilities and the bash shell, the following standard command-line development tools must be installed on your computer:

  • 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 (as provided on macOS).

  • 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.

On macOS, suitable versions of all of these tools are provided by the Xcode Command Line Tools. To install them, open a terminal window and run xcode-select --install; then click “Install” in the pop-up window. If the Xcode Command Line Tools are already installed, you may want to check if they need to be updated by typing softwareupdate -l.

On Linux, ar and ranlib are in the binutils package. The other programs are usually located in packages with their respective names.

On Redhat-derived systems not all perl components are installed by default and you might have to install the perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker package.

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.

Type

standard

Dependencies

Version Information

Equivalent System Packages

$ apk add binutils make m4 perl python3 tar bc gcc g++ ca-certificates \
      coreutils

$ sudo pacman -S binutils make m4 perl python tar bc gcc which

$ conda install compilers make m4 perl python tar bc

$ sudo apt-get install binutils make m4 perl flex python3 tar bc gcc \
      g++ ca-certificates

$ sudo yum install binutils make m4 python3 perl \
      perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker tar gcc gcc-c++ findutils which diffutils \
      perl-IPC-Cmd flex

$ sudo pkg install gmake automake bash dash python

$ sudo emerge sys-devel/binutils sys-libs/binutils-libs dev-build/make \
      dev-scheme/guile dev-libs/libffi app-arch/tar sys-devel/gcc \
      dev-libs/mpc sys-libs/glibc sys-kernel/linux-headers \
      dev-lang/perl sys-devel/m4 sys-devel/bc dev-lang/python \
      sys-devel/flex app-misc/ca-certificates dev-libs/libxml2 \
      sys-apps/findutils sys-apps/which sys-apps/diffutils

No package needed.

No package needed.

$ nix-env --install binutils gnumake gnum4 perl python3 gnutar bc gcc \
      bash

$ sudo zypper install binutils make m4 gawk perl python3 tar bc which \
      glibc-locale-base gcc gcc-c++ ca-certificates gzip findutils \
      diffutils

$ sudo slackpkg install binutils make guile gc libffi gcc-13 gcc-g++-13 \
      libmpc glibc kernel-headers perl m4 bc python3 flex \
      ca-certificates libxml2 cyrus-sasl

$ sudo xbps-install bc binutils gcc libgomp-devel m4 make perl python3 \
      tar bash which diffutils gzip python3-devel bzip2-devel xz \
      liblzma-devel libffi-devel zlib-devel libxcrypt-devel

If the system package is installed, ./configure will check if it can be used.