After failed attempts to run Sage 3.4.1 from the binary available for VMWare I've compiled Sage v3.4.2 from within VMWare on a Win XP laptop using the following instructions:
Login as "manage" and type "sudo su". Then 1. Delete /usr/local/sage: cd /usr/local; rm -rf sage 2. Download sage-3.4.2.tar by typing wget http://sagemath.org/src/sage-3.4.2.tar 3. Extract it, tar xf sage-3.4.2.tar 4. Move it to be /usr/local/sage, and mv sage-3.4.2 sage 5. Build Sage -- this will take a few *hours* (no manual intervention) but will work: cd sage; make. When the compilation completed I immdiately tried sage by guessing that I'd simply type "sage" at the post-compilation prompt. I managd to run the early tests from the installation guide successfully. This is the first time I've run any part of sage successfully so that's a great milestone passed. I used "exit" a number of times to the point where I could typ "off" which closed my VMWare Player. What do I now do to run Sage notebooks from my browser and to run the sage command line please? If I open the VMWare Player the only relevant option I can spot is to re-rerun the sage VMX. This taks me to the Notebook, Manage, Off, Sage menu that I've seen before and is as ineffective; if I type "notebook" I can't gain acces from my browser. If I login using login/sage and then type "sage" I get no sage command line. This is presumably because I'm running the faulty vmx that I'm trying to circumvent with my compilation. So: 1) How do I use the VMWare environment to access a browser-based notebook using my new compilation? 2) How do I use the VMWare environment to access the sage comand line using my new compilation? 3) Can I now use my new compilation to run a sage notebook without needing the VMWare Player (that is, directly under Windows XP now)? And if so how? 4) Can I now use my new compilation to run the sage command line without needing the VMWare Player (that is, in Windows XP)? And if so how? In the cases of 3) and 4) above I'm not even sure where the executable and any associated files are in Windows; the obvious searches for .exe files or any sage files created on the day of the compliation seem fruitless. Many thanks for any guidance you can give. Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
