On Jan 24, 2008 8:51 AM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have sage running now on my windows-based laptop, but not without some > > difficulty. Even so, it was faster than my internet download attempts > > earlier. Here are a few comments. The disk includes a program called 7zip > > used to unpack the file sage-vmware-2.10.7z. My first attempts to do this > > failed even though I had installed (successfully) 7zip and it was listed in > > my program files. Windows still couldn't find it. Finally I clicked on 7zip > > itself and then 7zip couldn't find sage-vmware-2.10.7z even though it was > > sitting on my desktop. > > This sounds a lot like the one and only time I tried to use Windows > Vista- it was pretending to do one thing, and really doing another! A > very undesirable feature in an operating system... > > > I finally figured out how to get 7zip to unzip > > sage-vmware and that produced a folder with jillions files.The instructions > > in the readme file (included below) say to click on sage.vmx. This file is > > NOT in the folder. So I clicked on every folder until I finally found the > > one that works. It is called simply sage (Vmware configuration file) in my > > machine. There is no ,vmx extension on the file name. I recall that this > > fooled William when he was installing sage on my office pc. You might want > > to change the instructions in the readme file. > > Is Windows hiding filename extensions? The fact that it said (Vmware > configuration file) seems to indicate that the extension was there, > but Windows wasn't showing it to you...
Definitely the extension is there. It's just that windows hides it. > > Another question: To use the notebook feature I need to copy an address > > into Firefox. I can't figure out how to copy this address, so I end up > > typing it in. Is there a better way? > > I can't answer this one... No. You have to type it in. > > > But now everything seems fine. By the way how to I download upgrades when > > they become available. Do I have to download the whole package again? > > My guess is that because of the following issue, you can't upgrade a > vmware installation of Sage yet: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1193 > > I hope I'm wrong... > You are wrong. I always make the new versions of he sage-vmware image by simply upgrading from previous versions. I have no clue what #1193 is about. VERY likely it's just a permissions error. > > <SNIP> > > > > 1. Download sage-vmware-2.10.7z > > 2. Extract it anywhere you want using 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org): > > (This will .take about 15 minutes > > despite anything Windows tells you. Do *not* stop the > > extract halfway through and think SAGE will still work.) > > 3. Make sure you have installed the free VMware program: > > http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ > > 4. Double click on sage.vmx in the sage-vmware-2.10 > > directory to run SAGE. > > > > -- > Robert L. Miller > http://www.rlmiller.org/ > Department of Mathematics > University of Washington, Seattle > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
