Hi Bill, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Bill Hart<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to open the flint spkg from the recent sage. As per the > instructions I typed: > > tar jxvf flint-1.3.0.p1.spkg > > on sage.math, but it complained: > > bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Sage 4.1.1 is shipped with flint-1.3.0.p2.spkg, so I would do this: [mv...@sage sage-4.1.1]$ cd spkg/standard/ [mv...@sage standard]$ tar -jxf flint-1.3.0.p2.spkg [mv...@sage standard]$ cd flint-1.3.0.p2/ [mv...@sage flint-1.3.0.p2]$ l dist patches spkg-check spkg-install src test_gcc_version.sh SPKG.txt > I still don't understand why the libraries have to be in this spkg > format. Surely it makes more sense for an open source project to have > *all* code accessible easily, i.e. in source form, not packed into > tar.?? files. I think this issue came up last year. Some people wanted to change the naming convention of spkg's. I cannot recall the name of the relevant thread. However, it resulted in updating the file SAGE_ROOT/spkg/README.txt to its current content. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
