On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:33 PM, VictorMiller <[email protected]> wrote:
> More data: If I start sage and then type
>
> !magma
>
> it starts up Magma. I then exit from it (by typing "exit;") and start
> the notebook.
>
> However, if I try to run magma from the notebook, I get the message
>
> "Type Error: unable to start magma"
>
> What's going on?
What happens if you do this on the command line:
sage: magma.eval('2+2')
What happens if you type this in a notebook cell:
sage: os.system('magma')
William
>
> Victor
>
> On May 28, 2:11 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM, VictorMiller <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I have magma and sage 4.4.1 installed on my macbook pro. I've made
>> > sure that the magma command is on my PATH. Yet when I run sage, and I
>> > try and call to magma.eval, it says that it can't find magma. This
>> > has worked without problem on my linux workstation at work. So what
>> > needs to be done to have sage find my installation of magma? The page
>> >http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/interfaces/magma.html
>> > doesn't say anything about this.
>>
>> > Victor
>>
>> Start sage and type
>>
>> sage: !magma
>>
>> What happens?
>>
>>
>>
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