>From 5.X to 6.X Sage has dramatically changed and you can not upgrade between these two versions with the builtin scripts. You need to download a new tarball.
Vincent 2015-02-14 17:11 UTC+01:00, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]>: > On 2015-02-14, drewj <[email protected]> wrote: >> I tried sage -upgrade. I am currently on 5.8. I got a message >> >> Error: it is impossible to upgrade your version of Sage to version 6.0 >> or later. It is recommended to install the latest version of Sage from >> scratch. >> >> I think I can figure out how to install sage from scratch from >> documentation online, but I can't find anything about whether I need to do >> >> anything to remove/uninstall the old version. I don't want two versions on >> >> my computer. Will the new version automatically replace the old, or do I >> need to do something? > > No, a new version will be normally speaking installed in another > directory, and you should not overwrite the old directory with files > from new Sage. > You can just remove the old directory. > > If you modified your environment variables to point to a version of > Sage, or installed Sage scripts in (say) in /usr/local/bin > you might want to update these. > > HTH, > Dmitrii > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
