
With less (be sure to have some swap space in this case). It is recommended to have at least 2 GB of RAM, but you might get away Your computer comes with at least 6 GB of free disk space. SeeĪlso the System-specific requirements below. This section details the technical prerequisites needed on all platforms. Other installation options for Windows are using the Windows Subsystemįor Linux (WSL), or with the aid of a virtual machine. Note: if you are installing Sage for development, you should rather followįor some operating systems, rather than compiling from source. You can change absolutely any part of Sage or the programs on which it depends, Moreover, it offers you full development capabilities: Will be optimized for your particular computer and should therefore offerīetter performance and compatibility than a binary install. It can take your computer a while to build Sage from the source code,Īlthough the procedure is fully automated and should need no humanīuilding Sage from the source code has the major advantage that your install Painless, basically consisting in extracting the source tarball and typing If you do have all the pre-requisite tools,

You can name the tab anything you’d like (“Cygwin” works just fine).More familiarity with computers may be required to build Sage from Setup.exe -q -P cron,gcc,gcc-g++,inetutils,make,mingw-runtime,ncurses,openssh,patch,ruby,rxvt,subversion,vim,make,automake,git,git-completion,gitk,openssh,ping,openssl,openssl-devel,sqlite,nano,ImageMagick,libmagick-devel,curl,mingw64-i686-gcc-g++,readline,libreadline7,zlib-devel,mintty,zshīash Tabs” and click “Add”. Drag the shortcut to setup.exe from your Desktop into the cmd window. Setup needs to be run from a cmd window, not from bash.

# Cygwin 1.7's setup.exe introduces a -P switch which takes a list of extra packages. # you can update your installation using "unattended" mode with -q Openssh # SSH (client and server, though the server's not so great)

If you're a Unix user and you're stuck with a Win32 box, you probably do. You can read more about it on the Cygwin home page, but this page assumes you know what it is and have already decided that you want it.

# Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for MS Windows.
