On Sep 22, 5:38 am, arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> L.S.

Hi,

> When updating to Sage 3.1.2 I run into the following problem:
>
> Am using a Mac G4 dual core, OSX 10.4.11.
> Used a previous version of Sage without apparent problems. Updating to
> 3.1.2 however was not without hickups: copying Sage with the finder
> resulted in error messages that duplicate names were not allowed.
> Removing all visible traces of Sage from /Applications and then
> installing with Terminal (sudo cp -R -P "/Volumes/sage-3.1.2-osx10.4-
> ppc-PowerMacintosh-Darwin/" . inside the Applications folder) appeared
> to work fine. Starting Sage however resulted in the following:
>
> /Users/arnold>cd "/Applications/sage" ; "/Applications/sage/sage"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | SAGE Version 3.1.2, Release Date: 2008-09-19                       |
> | 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.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-location", line 71, in
> <module>
>     update_library_files(R)
>   File "/Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-location", line 39, in
> update_library_files
>     open(LIB + F,'w').write(H)
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Applications/sage/local/lib/
> libfplll.la'

Since you installed via sudo you do not own the Sage files. If you
start sage once under sudo this will likely fix those issues.

> sage:
>
> Typing "notebook()" gives me a list of previous notebooks; when I open
> one, type a new line and ask to evaluate nothing happens.
>
> The error message at startup never occurred before.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Regards,
> arnold

Cheers,

Michael
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