---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Anderson Date: Sunday, October 30, 2011 Subject: sage broken on latest ubuntu; solutions To: [email protected]
Professor Stein, My apologies for sending a sage support message directly to you; I couldn't figure out how to post to one of the sage email lists. Sage does not work out of the box on the latest version of ubuntu - this is a problem because it could cause ubuntu users who are not software installation experts to give up on sage. The 64bit binary fails on 64bit ubuntu 11.10 with a message "ImportError: No module named _md5". (Compiling from source also leads to an error). The fix for the binary install is: sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8 Then the binary works. In both ubuntu 11.04 and ubuntu 11.10 latex rendering does not work in sage text mode. The fix for this is: sudo apt-get install texlive-full I want to see more users adopt your excellent applied math package. Please modify the sage download package so it works out-of-the-box with ubuntu 1.10. -Dan -- 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
