On 2014-03-09, Bikerman <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought it might require more horsepower than I have on this server > (under 2gig memory and single processor CENTOS. I had a few problems > getting 5.10 and then 6.0 installed - the installation (source) bombs when > it runs out of memory - usually on Linbook - and I have to put the server > into a deep coma before I can get a clean install. Once done then it runs > fine with my other stuff - Apache web-server mainly. I can't just add more > virtual because its a VPS, and although I can hack a swapfile using a > couple of tricks, it doesn't seem to help much. It needs over a gig of free > memory before it will even get close to a clean run. > You might try using git to repair what's damaged by your package installation. Probably just one command:
git checkout master will do the trick. See http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/manual_git.html for more details. > Do you happen to know if 6.11 is hungrier than 6.0? If it hasn't done a > Microsoft (ie bloated at least 10% on each minor release and up to 100% per > major) then it would make sense to give it a go. I don't think it is much different in this way. You can try using git to pull the updates and then run make. It might work without the need to rebuild the whole thing. > > (Now...where's my server hammer? I'll need to put the little guy to sleep > to stop him squirming around and spoiling the surgery..... :-) > > On Saturday, 8 March 2014 17:50:30 UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> On 2014-03-08, Bikerman <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> > Is there a simple way to reverse the effect of loading spkg >> sage_root-5.13 >> > into a sage 6.0 installation. >> > I installed it by accident (forgot to delete it from a file holding the >> > names of spkg installs to batch) and naturally the installation now >> fails >> > to recognise the packages previously installed. It will take some while >> to >> > reinstall them all, so I'm wondering if there is a quick and dirty way >> to >> > just reverse the effects, since I'm pretty sure the package only reset >> an >> > index and didn't actually uninstall anything..... >> The package had overwritten a bunch of stuff, I guess. >> Do you have any pressing reason not to upgrade to Sage 6.1.1 ? >> This would have been the simplest way out... >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
