On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:01 PM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 16, 6:27 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ok, I've tried out the instructions. > > > > > [1] On the desktop, the binary file downloaded and expanded ok, but I > > > get (different from before) error messages when I run ./sage > > > [screenful reproduced below]. > > > > That just means the binary is for a much older machine than yours. > > You can either try a different linux binary, or wait for a Mandriva binary. > > --- Well if the binaries are for a restricted range of machines, then > it would be > helpful, if the webpages or documentation would actually say just what > machines > the binaries are for.
It does -- the filename has the operating system and machine architecture listed in it. As an experiment I recommended trying a binary not for your machine on the off chance it might work. I guess I shouldn't have suggested that. > > > > > [2] On the laptop, there is no longer enough room even to expand the > > > binary file, because of the 400MB debris left by the failed attempt to > > > compile from source. If I could only know what it has installed on to > > > the disk, I would like to remove it. (The failed compile attempt was > > > made in a branch directory off 'home'. The total extra disk > > > utilization after the compile attempt was about 800 MB more than at > > > the start. About 400MB of that was in the subdirectory where the > > > compile was done. I've now deleted that. But there remains an extra > > > 400MB somewhere unidentified. Any ideas on where to look would be > > > appreciated.) > > > > Sage is 100% local. It *does not* install any files anywhere else > > on your hard drive unless you type "make install", and even then > > the install only happens at the very end. In other words, just delete > > the directory where you tried to do the build, and it will be as > > if you had never done anything. Nice, eh? > > "As if I had never done anything". Unfortunately that is not true, on > the > evidence of the state of my machine. I say that "unless you type make install". Check back in your email, it looks like you did. Anyways, since I'm obviously causing more harm then good for this particular support request I'll stop helping on it. Do check back for Mandriva binaries. We will surely have them in the not distant future. william --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
