On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Mike Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sage creates shell scripts like this in /usr/local/bin: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/maxima#!/bin/sh > sage -maxima $* > > What happens if I install some of these programs (such as Maxima, gap, > R) > directly (for example if I were to do a "yum install maxima") ? > I'm assuming (perhaps I'm wrong) that this will put an actual maxima > executable in /usr/local/bin/maxima. > > So, what I'm curious about, is whether those shell scripts that sage > puts in /usr/local/bin are actually used by sage, or whether they > are just a convenience in case someone wants to invoke one of those > tools by name from the shell.
They are *not* used by Sage. They are only a convenience in case someone wants to invoke one of those tools by name from the shell. > I hope that question made sense. The immediate practical import is > that I do actually want to do: "yum info maxima maxima-gui" and I'm > unclear if this will "clash" with my sage installation. It will not clash. You may want to delete the sage-created /usr/local/bin/maxim though. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
