You need to install the build-essentials package and the gfortran package. On Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:23:06 AM UTC+8, Eric Kangas wrote: > > Actually I tried compiling it again and this time the error was this: > > checking for m4... no > configure: Sorry, the 'm4' command must be in the path to build Sage > configure: On some systems it can be found in /usr/ccs/bin > configure: See also http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/ > configure: error: Exiting, as the macro processor 'm4' can not be found. > ERROR: You do not have all of the prerequisites needed > to build Sage from source. See the errors above. > make[1]: *** [installed/prereq-0.9] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nooniensoong97/programs/sage-4.7.2/spkg' > > real 0m3.360s > user 0m0.584s > sys 0m0.276s > Error building Sage. > make: *** [build] Error 1 > > I never had this problem before when I compiled the first time. > > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 2:25:03 PM UTC-7, Eric Kangas wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I had to redo my computer. Was unable to access sage when I saved the >> sage folder on my external drive. I am having issues with finding the path >> to gfortran so I can use the export function. I am using ubuntu 10.10 and >> sage 4.7.2. I have installed gfortran. However I use the search for files >> option under places, but nothing shows up. >> >
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