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# sagemath_environment: System and software environment

## About SageMath

> “Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to

>   Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB”

> Copyright (C) 2005-2024 The Sage Development Team

> https://www.sagemath.org

SageMath fully supports all major Linux distributions, recent versions of macOS, and Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

See https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/index.html for general installation instructions.

## About this pip-installable distribution package

The pip-installable distribution package \(sagemath-environment\) is a distribution of a small part of the Sage Library.

It provides a small, fundamental subset of the modules of the Sage library (“sagelib”, \(sagemath-standard\)), providing the connection to the system and software environment. It also includes the \(sage\) script for launching the Sage REPL and accessing various developer tools (see \(sage --help\)).

## Type

optional

## Dependencies

- $(PYTHON)

- $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

- python_build: A simple, correct PEP517 package builder

## Version Information

package-version.txt:

    10.9

version_requirements.txt:

    sagemath-environment ~= 10.9rc2

## Equivalent System Packages

(none known)

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because `spkg-configure.m4` has not been written for this package; see Issue #27330 for more information.