On 7/5/07, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops - at the end of that first paragraph, I meant to say: then type > 'make'. Sorry. The source instructions do cover most of it, just > make sure you have the OS X development tools installed.
And make sure you have a recent version -- if you have tools from a year ago, it won't work (they were buggy). In any case, I'm pretty sure the original poster didn't want to build from source. He had probably downloaded the source tarball by mistake and really wanted the binary tarball. > > On Jul 5, 8:47 pm, Marshall Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By double-clicking, you should have a folder called sage-2.6. Call up > > a terminal window (the Terminal app is in Applications/Utilities, or > > you can just search for Terminal in Spotlight (the upper right search > > bar)). Then cd into the sage-2.6 directory by typing 'cd > > sage-2.6' (without the quotes). > > > > If this doesn't work, you may not have the OS X development tools > > installed. They come on the installation disk for your mac, but are > > not installed by default. Install those packages and try again. > > > > The source instructions are > > at:http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/inst/node6.html > > > > and they might help as well. > > > > If you still have problems, feel free to post again. > > -MH > > > > On Jul 5, 5:51 pm, danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I tried to post this before and it didn't pop up on the discussions > > > thign so i'm trying again.. > > > > > I am trying to install sage on my mac notebook. i followed the > > > instructions given.. first i downloaded the .tar file.. then i double > > > clicked it to extract or whatever. and the instructions said to then > > > click on the sage icon.. only there is no sage icon only a folder with > > > a bunch of other folders in it and I dont know how to build things > > > from source. If anyone can help that would be great. Thank you. > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
