On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:23 AM, arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, ok... > > Since this is an installation that's intended to go out to a few dozen > machines I'm not sure in advance what the user's might need so wanted > to give them everything possible. A veritable Las Vegas buffet of > Mathematical software. > > But sounds like, as with a big buffet, too much of a good thing is > just too much. > > However, there doesn't seem to be any quickly visible documentation on > what optional packages are needed for what functionality. Might be > good to either put an obvious pointer to such info (in the "how to > install optional docs" screen) or put up some warning along the lines > of "don't install these unless you *know* you need them" so those who > don't know better (like me) won't go overboard. > > I don't know if it's possible with the way SAGE is built, but might > not want to hide from the the displayed list those optional installs > that make no sense (like Linux binaries on a Mac box).
We would love to, but nobody has implemented that, and everything takes time. Unfortunately, I think this comment applies to everything above. -- William > > On Jun 17, 4:46 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:14 AM, arthur <[email protected]> wrote: >> > A fresh install on a brand new 10.6.4 MacBookPro (also failed on >> > 10.6.3 yesterday). >> >> > After installing all the 15 optional installs that would install (that >> > will be a separate post) >> >> Installing all the optional packages without understanding what they >> are doesn't even make sense to do. >> For example, one of the optional packages (Valgrind), rebuilds Python >> in a special debugging mode for doing instrumented debugging, which >> only works on Linux... and others contain binaries only for certain >> platforms. >> >> One should only install optional packages that you have a specific >> need for and understand. >> >> -- William >> >> >> >> >> >> > Sage now won't start, fails with Python >> > errors, whereas it was starting fine before the optional installs (and >> > it did do all the optional ones). Errors below: >> >> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > ++++++++++++++++ >> >> > Last login: Wed Jun 16 13:24:20 on console >> > dhcp-0098943500-9d-83:~ admin$ sage >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > | Sage Version 4.4.2, Release Date: 2010-05-19 | >> > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Traceback (most recent call last): >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-ipython", line 18, in >> > <module> >> > import IPython >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/ >> > __init__.py", line 58, in <module> >> > __import__(name,glob,loc,[]) >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/ >> > ipstruct.py", line 22, in <module> >> > from IPython.genutils import list2dict2 >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/ >> > genutils.py", line 59, in <module> >> > from IPython.external.path import path >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/ >> > external/path.py", line 35, in <module> >> > import md5 >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python/md5.py", line 10, in >> > <module> >> > from hashlib import md5 >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python/hashlib.py", line 136, in >> > <module> >> > md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5') >> > File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python/hashlib.py", line 63, in >> > __get_builtin_constructor >> > import _md5 >> > ImportError: No module named _md5 >> > dhcp-0098943500-9d-83:~ admin$ >> >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> > Help? >> >> > Arthur >> >> > -- >> > 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 >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
