On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:26 AM, DigDug_the_2nd <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed Sage on an Ubuntu 10 VM using a prebuilt binary, and it > installed it in its own environment under a folder called sage-4.8 > I know this is a nice feature in general, but the problem is that my VM > already had a python2.6 installation on it, so its now the second python2.6 > I'm used to using pip or easy_install to specify the python installation by > its version number in order to tell it which python to target
Type "sage -sh" then use pip or easy_install, exactly as usual. > But when I specify python2.6 it assumes I want to use the python2.6 > installed system wide, but I really want to install under sage > I have been running the command line install commands through Sage's python > using the subprocess commands, and since it is called > from Sage's python, it lets the command line know to install to the python > installation under Sage. > This isn't too bad, but I just ran into a problem trying to install Tkinter > where the installation asks for user input that's supposed to happen > through the terminal, and I have no idea how to handle this using > subprocess. > Is there a better way of doing this all? > If I uninstall the system wide python2.6, > will I be able to install using something like: > $ pip-2.6 install some-package > Something is telling me there has got to be an easier way that what I've > been trying with subprocess > > -- > 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
