I got thru your step 5, but at step 6, the Terminal window shows this:

>Error setting environment variables by running /Applications/Installed from 
>Internet/Mathematics/sage/local/bin/sage-env; possibly contact sage-devel (see 
>http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel).
cat: /bin/sage-banner: No such file or directory
env: sage.bin: No such file or directory
logout

[Process completed]

Note I use OSX 10.5.7 and downloaded the sage for 10.5.

Armin


On Jun 21, 9:05 am, Paul Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 Jun 2009, at 16:21, lim wrote:
>
> > When I try to drag the "sage" folder from /Applications to Terminal,
> > the following message appears:
>
> Why would you do that? (dragging from Applications to Terminal). You  
> sound rather confused.
>
> I'll try to write out the steps as simply as I can. If this seams  
> obvious, forgive me.
> Some of this you will already have done:
>
> 1. Download the sage-4.0.1-OSX10.5-Intel-i386-Darwin.dmg file.
>
> 2. Open it to mount it (Safari may have done this automatically)
>
> 3. You should have a window that is the contents of the disk image.  
> Drag the 'sage' folder to somewhere on your hard disk. (If you get  
> asked for a password, then I would cancel and choose somewhere else) A  
> good choice to get things running is your desktop. You can move it  
> later if you want. You'll need about 1GB of space on your drive.
>
> 4. Eject the Disk image. You don't need it anymore. (Not essential,  
> but it stops confusion)
>
> 5. Open the sage folder on the hard disk (e.g. on your desktop).  
> Inside, there is a program called 'sage'. Double click to run it.
>
> 6. A terminal window will appear, and after a little while you should  
> get a 'sage:' prompt. Type 'notebook()'  to get the notebook running.
>
> 7. Safari should open and take you to the notebook.
>
> That's all I do to get sage running. If you have any more problems,  
> please tell us which steps you've managed to do. It's very difficult  
> to solve problems when we don't know what you've done.
>
> Paul

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