diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1a0582d87c5..38cf9271134 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -394,6 +394,18 @@ in the Installation Guide. or JupyterLab installation, as described in [section "Launching SageMath"](https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/launching.html) in the installation manual. + +Alternative Installation using PiPy +--------------- + +You can find `sage` and `sagemath` pip packages but it is worth nothing that they are not at all realted to this `sage`. Indeed `pip install sage` installs `sage 0.0.0` which is literally an empty package. For installation of this `sage` you need to install `sagemath-standard`. First activate your python virtual environment and follow these steps: + + $ python3 -m pip install sage_conf + $ ls $(sage-config SAGE_SPKG_WHEELS) + $ python3 -m pip install $(sage-config SAGE_SPKG_WHEELS)/*.whl + $ python3 -m pip install sagemath-standard + +You need to install the `sage_conf`, a wheelhouse of various python packages. You can list the wheels using `ls $(sage-config SAGE_SPKG_WHEELS)`. After manual installation of these wheels you can install the sage library, `sagemath-standard`. Troubleshooting ---------------