By coincidence, I recently installed sage from source on a fresh ubuntu install and the instructions on http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/inst/node5.html worked for me. In other words, if you type
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.2-base # or the latest version available sudo apt-get install make sudo apt-get install m4 sudo apt-get install bison sudo apt-get install flex sudo apt-get install tar sudo apt-get install perl sudo apt-get install binutils sudo apt-get install libstdc++6-dev sudo apt-get install g++ then extract and make the sage tarball as William describes below, it should install fine. It may take an hour or so to finish compilation though. On 11/1/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/1/07, Joseph Hufnagle wrote: > > Dear Sir: > > I recently downloaded Ubuntu Linux v. 7.10 and sage for Ubuntu Linux > > v. 2.8.9. I followed the directions in the read me file, and after remaking > > the path, I got the message "Illegal instruction (core dumped). > > I don't know what's wrong. Is there a specific folder I should > > decompress to? > > What kind of computer are you using? Are you an experienced > Linux user? You might have to build from source if you're > using an old(er) processor -- don't worry, building SAge from > source is easy and well supported. Just get the top > file listed here: > http://sagemath.org/dist/src/index.html > extract it with: > tar xvf sage-2.8.10.tar > then do > cd sage-2.8.10 > make > > You have to make sure the following Ubuntu packages are installed: > gcc, g++, make, m4 > Probably they all are by default, except maybe g++. > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
