On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:41:18 -0800, Richard Boardman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Dr Stein,
> I am studying Group theory using Professor Joyner's Book, "Adventures in
> Group Theory".
>
> I would like to run Sage but cannot make it work at the moment.
>
> I use Windows 2000, live in England and use an English Keyboard. I
> cannot make co-linux work and in any case, running it appears to involve
> making changes to the operating system which are most undesireable and
> which upset other programs.
> What do I have to do to run co-linux?
From what you say you don't want to run colinux.
> Is there any alternative to co-linux?
Yes. One option is to run the live server cd:
http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/
You can run it under windows using the vmware player, which is a free
download
from vmware.com.
I am also working on supporting cygwin against (which is native windows),
but
there are more important things that I have to do right now. Perhaps
somebody
else would be interested in getting SAGE to compile for cygwin... I don't
know.
> I have zero Linux experience, but I note that Down loading and compiling
> the source sems to be the prefered method of installation.
Only for linux users. Not for windows users.
> I thought I might be able to compile The source using the Borland
> C++ builder Development tool.
That's extremely unlikely, unless you want to put years into the project...
> I have downloaded the source and unzipped it but I get spkg files rather
> than text files How can I get source text files?
An spkg is a tar bzip2 file. In unix you would type
tar jxvf filename.spkg
to extract it.
That said, there's no way you're going to compile SAGE on Windows using
Borland C++.
SAGE is partly a compilation of open source software developed in a UNIX
environment,
and building it from source requires such an environment. Morever, SAGE
uses in a fundamental
way things that only exist in UNIX (e.g., psuedo ttys) that don't really
make much
sense in native windows.
William
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