On May 30, 2009, at 11:40 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Dear Laurent, > > I think the idea is that Sage is "with batteries included" and should > not interfere with anything that you have on your system. Namely, > since Sage is rather big, it is very probable that Sage ships > something that is already installed on your computer -- in your case, > Python. So, either the installation of Sage would nuke your Python (I > guess you wouldn't be happy about it...), or during installation, Sage > should try to find things on your system and try to use them. AFAIK, > that would frankly be impossible, in such a complicated system. > > On the dark side, you need to re-install all your Python packages. On > the bright side, it shouldn't be difficult. Sage also provides its own > shell, that you can obtain by the command > sage -sh > In the Sage shell, the PATH points to the things that were installed > by Sage. Hence, when you run Python inside the Sage shell, then it is > Sage's Python. Start the Sage shell, install a Python package, and > quit the Sage shell, then afterwards you should be able to use the > package in Sage.
Note you can also do sage -python to run Sage's Python. Thus to install packages, you can do stuff like sage -python setup.py install - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
