On 5/4/07, dave dobbs <> wrote:
> I think it's terrific that you made a VMware module of SAGE available. It
> seemed to start just fine and looked
Just out of curiosity do you prefer using SAGE via VMware to possibly
using it via cygwin? Also, did you find the size of the vmware download
to be a major problem or not?
> OK from Firefox, but I ran into difficulties trying to run any of the maxima
> plot examples from the tutorial. I have
> maxima installed independently and when I removed the "maxima." prefix they
> worked fine. Is there something
> else that needs to be done to enable plotting from the Notebook mode?
None of those examples should work via the notebook. They are only for
running SAGE via Cygwin. Don't worry about that particular problem at all.
Anyway, it's much better to plot directly and not use maxima, as you've
done. We'll actually likely remove those examples, or at least make it much
clearer that they won't work via the Notebook.
> Another question that's likely silly: how do I do the installs mentioned in
> item 8 of the README file? I tried
> from the same place where I entered simple math commands and nothing
> happens. Also, is there a list of names
> to use or should the command be "install_package('name')" as shown?
(1) Type
optional_packages()
for a list of packages.
(2) Type
install_package('exact package name')
to install an optional package.
Write back if you have problems with (1) or (2). Also, consider subscribing
to the sage-support mailing list, so you can ask your questions to a large
number of "highly trained volunteers":
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support
Just out of curiosity how did you find out about SAGE?
> I'm using the latest version of Firefox, Windows XT Media with all of the
> patches and I downloaded sage-vmware-2.4.zip. I'm using VMware Server 1.0.3.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions/advice...Dave Dobbs
William
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