On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:54 AM, parthiban <[email protected]> wrote: > Respected Sir, > > I am Parthiban doing my Ph.D., in the field of Numerical solutions to > Fractional differential equations in Department of Mathematics, Bharathiar > University, Coimbator, INDIA. > > Recently I came across SAGE software whose mission is to create a > alternative to mathematica.. > > In my research I use mathematica. So since SAGE is the alternative with GPL, > I liked to use it.. > > I am using Ubuntu 10.04LTS. I downloaded SAGE and installed in my Laptop. > Now I can able to work in command line interface, but not notebook > interface.. > > My questions are > > question 1. How to get that notebook interface.. If I type notebook() in the > terminal of SAGE, it displays the following > > sage: notebook() > The notebook files are stored in: sage_notebook.sagenb > Removing stale pidfile sage_notebook.sagenb/twistd.pid > ************************************************** > * * > * Open your web browser to http://localhost:8000 * > * * > ************************************************** > 2012-02-01 21:06:37+0530 [-] Log opened. > 2012-02-01 21:06:37+0530 [-] twistd 9.0.0 > (/home/parthibankala/Downloads/sage-4.7.1/local/bin/python 2.6.4) starting > up. > 2012-02-01 21:06:37+0530 [-] reactor class: > twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor. > 2012-02-01 21:06:37+0530 [-] twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory starting > on 8000 > 2012-02-01 21:06:37+0530 [-] Starting factory > <twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory instance at 0x9c185ec> > Error showing url: Failed to execute child process > "/media/6060557A6055583C/ubuntu" (No such file or directory)
At this point, please try to "open your web browser to http://localhost:8000"; as instructed above. Does this work? > question 2. When we want help about some commands, it asks to type '?' at > the end of that command. For example to know about interact command, it is > asked to type "interact?".. > when I type this and when i press enter key, it shows the entire help > documentation of interact and at the end of the documentation it shows > <END>. I don't know, how to again get back into SAGE prompt. Press q. > > Since I am in a learning mode of SAGE, my questions seems to be silly.. > Please help me in this with broad minded.. They are very reasonable questions. Thanks for asking them. I hope Sage will become more user friendly so that new users won't have to ask such questions. > Hope, if I get the notebook interface, then it solves me lot.. > > Thank you in advance.. > > Eagerly waiting for your response.. > > Back Note: Your video tutorial is great. Really a great job to the > beginners. Thanks for your tutorials Thanks. > > With Regards > Parthiban > Research Scholar > Department of Mathematics > Bharathiar University > Coimbatore - 46. -- 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
