I did something stupid and your answer gave it away: I forgot that
that computer has an AMD Athlon inside it. Installing the Debian
Athlon binary did the job.

Thanks a lot for the very fast response. :)


On Apr 3, 6:28 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dortmund.de> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 6:23 pm, Georg Muntingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I just installed Sage 2.11 on an old computer that I upgraded to
> > Ubuntu Gutsy a couple of hours before. Any idea what's wrong?
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Apps/sage-2.11-ubuntu32-intel-i686-Linux$ ./sage
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | SAGE Version 2.11, Release Date: 2008-03-30                        |
> > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The SAGE install tree may have moved.
> > Regenerating Python.pyo and .pyc files that hardcode the install PATH
> > (please wait at most a few minutes)...
> > Please do not interrupt this.
>
> > /home/georgm/Apps/sage-2.11-ubuntu32-intel-i686-Linux/local/bin/sage-
> > sage: line 214:  7325 Illegal instruction     (core dumped) sage-
> > ipython "$@" -c "$SAGE_STARTUP_COMMAND;"
>
> That release has an ATLAS that uses instructions not available on that
> CPU. You can compile from source [which I assume would take an
> unreasonable amount of time] or uses the system's ATLAS build. See
> "QUESTION: I downloaded a Sage binary and it crashes on startup with
> Illegal instruction." fromhttp://wiki.sagemath.org/faq
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
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