Hi sage-support, thanks for reporting this. As was noted in a message above: > > The README.text file includes > > ** WARNING ** If you get an error copying the folder do the > following: > Do not drag the the folder out of the dmg image. Use the > shell (via Terminal) and do a > "cp -R -P /Volumes/sage-2.9.2-OSX10.4-intel-i386-Darwin/sage ." > from the location where you want to install to. Adjust the name of > the > Volume as needed. > and I just took that .dmg, opened it, opened a terminal session, cd'ed to a test directory, and executed the adjusted command (e.g. enter "cp -R -P /Volumes/sage-", use tab completion, then add "/sage ." at the end):
cp -R -P /Volumes/sage-3.4.1-OSX10.4-32bit-G4-PowerMacintosh- PowerMacintosh-Darwin/sage . and it worked fine. Everything was copied, including the "sage/spkg/" content. Please test this, and report back (whether it has worked, or not), thank you! @Michael, Justin: The "Readme.txt" has not been updated since sage-2.9.2 (obviously), but essentially it describes correctly what to do --- at least to me it was obvious that "Adjust the name of the Volume as needed." leads to the above command, and a working Sage. Since I am a developer, things obvious to me might not be so obvious to other people ... but this means I might be the wrong person to try to rephrase the "Readme.txt". :-) Thoughts? I had noticed with this 3.4.1 .dmg that "dragging and dropping" did not work. I don't remember exactly with which version, but I had had another .dmg (not -bdisted by me) with the same problem a while ago. Since the "Readme.txt" already adressed this issue, I didn't care much, guessing this was some familiar "Sage/Mac oddity". I'll poke around a bit nevertheless, if I can manage to create a "drag-and- droppable" version. Cheers, gsw --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
