Thanks for the advice, I had some problems building previous version of sage, and like that one - it solved by building sage from source. I guess building from source is the best way to avoid many problems.
On Jan 3, 9:47 am, Alex Ghitza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:09:00 -0800 (PST), Eugene Goldberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got two computers with archlinux (i686 and x86_64 versions) and > > on both machines there is same problem installing sage: > > > $make > > .... > > File "/home/ajunta/Binary/sage-4.3-linux-Ubuntu_9.10-x86_64-Linux/ > > local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/interfaces/gap.py", line 362, > > in _start > > raise RuntimeError, msg > > RuntimeError: Unable to start gap > > > could you please advice what is wrong with it? > > Hi, > > It looks like you're trying to install from the binaries for Ubuntu, is > that correct? I have never tried that, but I wouldn't be suprised if it > didn't work, since archlinux and ubuntu aren't really that close. > > One of these days I will find out how to make binaries and I'll produce > 32 and 64 bit binaries for archlinux. Until then, I suggest you > download the source code for Sage and build it yourself. It is a bit on > the long side (a few hours), but it should work pretty well. After you > download sage-4.3.tar, untar it and look at the README.txt file. It's > not quite up to date, but it's pretty good. In particular, Arch Linux > is listed as unsupported, but several people have been building Sage on > it for a while and it works fine. > > Before you start the build, make sure you have the prerequisites -- to > those listed in README.txt, you have to add gcc-fortran. You also need > to set the environment variables SAGE_FORTRAN and SAGE_FORTRAN_LIB as > described in README.txt. > > Good luck, and let us know if you have any more problems. > > PS: After writing the above, I noticed that Sage 4.3 is actually > packaged in AUR, both as source (sage-mathematics) and as binary > (sage-mathematics-bin). So that could be another option. (But I still > think that the easiest and most robust way is to build from source.) > > Best, > Alex > > -- > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne > -- Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
