On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 19:46, firebird <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tried Dima's suggestions to cut down compute time
> (a) SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=CoreI7,SSE3,SSE2,SSE1... unfortunately rejected??

I think that needs to be be SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=Corei7,SSE3,SSE2,SSE1
(note the capitalization of the i).

> Though GAP was preinstalled, the build ignored the installation and
> generated its own (bare) version.  I will try and link to the usual
> version.

Sage installs its own copy of most programs it uses, including Python,
GAP, Pari/GP, Maxima, ECL, etc. - even bzip2 (because apparently we
are attempting to even support platforms which don't have bzip2
installed). The Sage build ignored a local GAP installation
intentionally. So be advised that it is quite adventurous to try to
force Sage to use your system installations of these programs, though
of course you're welcome to try :)

> How might I add packages to Sage like ImageMagick?  Just install them?

ImageMagick in particular is not a program that Sage installs into its
own directory (unlike the programs I listed above) so you can just
install it on your system. Other programs, though, especially Python
libraries, should be installed into the Sage distribution itself. If a
program is provided by a SPKG (see http://sagemath.org/packages/ ),
then you can do this with `sage -i <packagename>`. For miscellaneous
Python libraries, use `easy_install` from inside a subshell launched
with `sage --sh`.

-Keshav

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