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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
