R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: > >> I'm not sure what is going on here. Version 3.0.5 is from quite a while >> ago, at least in Sage terms. The calculation works great in the current >> version of Sage (version 3.4, just released yesterday, as tested on >> http://www.sagenb.org.) Did you say that this was from the jaunty >> source, as in the debian packaging of Sage? > > Yes. It is from the prospective Ubuntu 9.04 (April 2009) Jaunty release > built from Debian packages that might be customized for Ubuntu. > > Would you recommend that I compile from the source tarball instead?
Personally, that's what I recommend. Sage development moves at a nice pace, and you're already missing out on a lot of very nice features and a lot of bugfixes because the debian package hasn't kept up. The Sage that you download is self-contained in one directory, which you can delete or move around, so it is trivial to have multiple versions of Sage installed in parallel in your home directory, for example. > >> Does running "sage -maxima" >> run maxima? Can you solve simpler equations? > > I am unfamiliar with maxima and its syntax, but typing > > sage -maxima > > gives > --- > Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net > Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL) > Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. > Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. > This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report() > provides bug reporting information. > (%i1) > --- > > I was able to solve the preceding equations on that tutorial page > without error. I think I saw a maxima crash and then a message saying > "automatically restarted" but have not been able to replicate it. In any > case I remember I got the correct answer without any manual intervention. > > I am copying this reply to the debian-sage mailing list as well if it > might help in the solution. > If maxima crashed beforehand, that could be the problem. You could try starting up a fresh copy of Sage and just do the solving in question to test it. Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
