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I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon in my laptop.
I want to install SageMath in my laptop.

However, when I am trying to install SageMath from terminal using

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:aims/sagemath

I get the message "This PPA does not support bionic".

I tried to extract from the tar file by first going to Desktop then SageMath and then running ./sage,
but here also I got the error message "Permission denied".

Can someone kindly help?

Use these commands

apt-add-repository -y ppa:aims/sagemath
apt-get update
apt-get install sagemath-upstream-binary

Go to the website SageMath and choose download for linux.

Choose any mirror and download for your architecture (32 or 64 bit).

Then choose the lzma package with the word Ubuntu(since, linux mint is a flavor of Ubuntu).

For example, for a 32-bit processor running Ubuntu 10.4, you'd select sage-4.4.4-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux.tar.lzma where 4.4.4 is the latest Sage version at the time of writing.

Installing reduces to unpacking into /opt (or any other location of your choice), and putting a link to the sage executable in /usr/local/bin:

sudo su
cd /opt
tar --lzma -xvf /path_to_sage_package/sage-?.?.?-linux-ubuntu-...lzma
ln -s /opt/sage.?-?-?.../sage /usr/local/bin/sage
sage

Compile from source

You can compile sage from source. Though it's actually very easy, it may take a long time (1 hour or more).

The first step is to install the required packages:

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

And you may also need the following for some extra features

sudo apt-get install imagemagick texlive dvipng

Then you can compile the code with:

make

You can now use sage from that directory or move it into /opt:

sudo su
cd /opt
cp -r /path_to_sage .
ln -s /opt/sage.?-?-?.../sage /usr/local/bin/sage

Create an icon in the panel

You can add to the panel an icon for starting the sage server. Just select add new element to the panel, add new applet or however it's called in your system, then choose for a new Launcher or Launcher for external applications.

In the configuration dialog for the launcher, make sure you select open in a terminal and choose sage -notebook for the command in GNOME or XFCE. In KDE, choose sage for the command and -notebook for command line options.

You can use SAGE for the name and the following for the icon:

/opt/sage-directory.../data/extcode/notebook/images/icon48x48.png

where sage-directory... is the directory where you installed sage