On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:08 AM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:26 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:29 AM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > > ... > >>> >>> >>> I have finally downloaded and uncompressed this on a machine in a >>> lab here running ubuntu 8.04. I get lots of errors when I run the >>> executable and there are no instructions. Any suggestions? >> >> What errors? > > > An accurate answer will have to wait until Monday when I can get to the > machine (it's one of 2 lab machines at work where I might be able to > install a sage server). It literally took 2 days to download, possibly > because the powers that be decided to keep the download speed > on the lab machines very low. As far as errors, I vaguely remember lots of > "...command not found" errors. This machine is a basic ubuntu 8.04 > install with, AFAIK, no commercial software (such as vmware) on it. > Does it require something else? SInce there were no instructions, > I just tried running the only executable in the tarball, hoping that would > suggest something. Unfortunately, I don't know what to do.
It sounds like you're trying to "run" a VMware image on a random old Linux box that doesn't even have VMware installed on it. That won't work. You have to install VMware at a bare minimum in order to start a vmware image. William > The machine is rather old and may have MB problems, which may be the > entire issue. Building Sage also takes a very long time with it.... > > >> >> -- William >> >> > >> > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
