Hi Zach,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, zsharon <[email protected]> wrote:

<SNIP>

> Yes, I'm using version 3.0.5 from the apt repository.  Thanks for
> pointing that out.

>From the Sage FAQ at http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq:

<quote>
3.11. I used Debian/Ubuntu to install Sage 3.0.5 and that version is
giving lots of errors. What can I do?

The version of Sage, i.e. Sage version 3.0.5, that's available through
apt-get in Debian and Ubuntu is very old. No-one has yet found time to
update the Debian/Ubuntu version of Sage. Help wanted! You should
download the latest version of Sage from the download page
(http://www.sagemath.org/download.html). If you would like to help
with updating the Debian/Ubuntu version of Sage, please email the
sage-devel mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel).
</quote>


> I'm not sure what you mean by "system-wide" though.  Could you explain
> what exactly that means?

By default on Debian and Ubuntu, any program that you install using
"apt-get install" or a package manager (e.g. Synaptic) will install it
system-wide. That is, the relevant binaries will be placed under any
of the following system-wide directories:

/bin/
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/

For more information on the Linux file system, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

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Regards
Minh Van Nguyen

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