On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, kilucas <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
By typing "notebook". That this doesn't work for you, unfortunately means that I have no clue what you can do to run Sage. > 2) How do I use the VMWare environment to access the sage comand line > using my new compilation? You should login as "sage". Again that you say this doesn't work means that you can't use that. You said above you were able to login and run Sage though, so do that. > > 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? No. It is impossible to run Sage directly under Windows XP. There does not exist a port of Sage to Windows. There has been work underway to port Sage to run natively under windows, but it is not finished yet. (http://windows.sagemath.org/) > > 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? No. > > 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. If you want to run Sage completely natively under Windows without using VMware, unfortunately you'll just have to wait, possibly for quite some time, until Sage is ported to run natively under Windows. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
