On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Madison
<[email protected]> wrote:
> William,  Does that mean I don't have to down load sage 3.4.zip?  Thanks

Yes.  I created sage-3.4 by just doing

  sage -upgrade

on an existing sage-3.2.3 vmware image.  Fortunately it worked perfectly.

William

> Mike
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:09 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I seemed to be confused on how to upgrade Sage from 3.2.3 to 3.4 using
>> > vmware windows. The upgrade was easy on my linux notebook.
>> >
>> >  I started the upgrade instruction from the new sage_vmx file on my
>> > windows machine. I followed the 1 to 8 instructions in the upgrade.txt
>> > file.  I was not sure which swap-clean.vmdk file to replace in the
>> > sage 3.2.3 directory.  I tried replacing the one from both the 3.2.3
>> > directory and the 3.4 directory.  When I start sage from my 3.4
>> > directory it bounces me out of notebook to the main vmware page.  If I
>> > start sage from the 3.2.3 directory by typing notebook.  The notebook
>> > comes up saying it is Sage 3.2.3.  I assume I lose all my old
>> > notebooks if I try to erase the in zipped sage directories and start
>> > over. Suggestions?  Thanks Mike
>>
>> Wow. Those instructions were for creating an entirely new
>> sage-vmware-3.4.zip image.
>> If you just have your *own* sage-vmware-3.2.3, which you have been
>> using a while,
>> the *only* thing you have to do to upgrade is
>>
>> 1. Login as the "manage" user.
>> 2. Type "sudo su"
>> 3. Type "sage -upgrade".
>>
>> That's it.  I did exactly the above to make sage-vmware-3.4 and it worked
>> fine.
>>
>> William
>> >>
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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