Source Code

Thank you for your interest in Sage! You can get the complete source for Sage to compile it on your own Linux or Mac OS X system. Sage lives in an isolated directory and does not interfere with your surrounding system. It ships together with everything necessary to develop Sage, the source code, all its dependencies and the complete changelog.

Short instructions:

1. Extract archive
2. Start compiling: make
3. Run Sage: ./sage
4. Upgrade to newer version later: ./sage -upgrade

Please read the README.txt and the installation guide for more details. Note: On Linux systems like Debian/Ubuntu, you may have to install the build essential package, the m4 macro processor, and gfortran:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install m4
sudo apt-get install gfortran

You might also consider installing the readline package and its corresponding development headers. These packages make it easier to work with the Sage command line interface by providing text editing features at the command line level:

sudo apt-get install readline-common
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

There is a very high level changelog.

You can browse all the tracked source code repositories and see exactly what's going on, and who did what when.