Cogito <[email protected]> writes: > A little help please. I just downloaded the binary Sage. I have > used Sage before on VirtualMachine for windows, but I recently > installed Ubuntu Linux and want to install the Sage program again. I > have NEVER used Linux before and I dont know anything about the > system, filesystem, layout, structure, or anything. Terminal is > confusing. Anyway, I downloaded the official Sage from their website > and its taken me a while, but I have unpackaged it and I tried > running "./sage" in Terminal from the correct directory. Errors > occur.
In particular, what errors? > Then I realized I needed to do a "sudo apt-get install > sagemath" in the directory, but now it cant find the sagemath > package. No, apt-get is for installing packages from the official Ubuntu package servers. Sage is not there. If you want to use apt-get for Sage, you could use Jan Groenewald's PPA (Personal Package Archive) where he has put a version of Sage. How to use it, I don't know, since I don't use Ubuntu - but you can probably google for how to use PPAs in Ubuntu. Normally, if you downloaded the *source* package of Sage from the Sage website, then you would need to run `make` in the directory. If you downloaded the *binary* Sage package, then `./sage` should work immediately. -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- -- 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
