Justin is right, the question is precisely: how Sage was installed on this computer?
On 20 September 2016 at 20:31, Justin C. Walker <jus...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2016, at 10:41 , Ursula Whitcher wrote: > >> I tried to install the PALP database for four-dimensional reflexive >> polytopes on the SageMath cloud, following the documentation at >> >> http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/geometry/sage/geometry/polyhedron/palp_database.html >> , > > It looks (below) like two problems: > 1. You don't have permission to write (create/change files) in the directory > tree SAGE_ROOT. > 2. This: "Error: package 'polytopes_db_4d' not found" > > I'm not sure how to overcome the first. If sage is installed on a multiuser > system, in an admin/root-owned tree, you are stuck, I think. Check with the > system admins. > > As for the second, you don't seem to have enough information below to figure > out why the package is not found. Are you sure the name is complete and > correct? The link you include (above) only seems to give use examples, not > install instructions. > > HTH > > Justin > >> which suggests the shell command >> >> sage -i polytopes_db_4d >> . >> >> This didn't work. I'm not sure whether the failure implies a problem with >> the database, or with the place I'm trying to put it on the cloud (this is >> a standard Sage installation, not a development version, on a members-only >> server without extra internet access enabled). Here's the full terminal >> output: >> >> *** >> >> make build/make/Makefile >> make[1]: Entering directory '/projects/sage/sage-7.3' >> make[1]: 'build/make/Makefile' is up to date. >> make[1]: Leaving directory '/projects/sage/sage-7.3' >> build/bin/sage-logger \ >> "cd build/make && ./install 'all-toolchain'" logs/install.log >> tee: logs/install.log: Permission denied >> ./install: line 28: /projects/sage/sage-7.3/.BUILDSTART: Permission denied >> Nothing to (re)build / all up-to-date. >> >> Error: package 'polytopes_db_4d' not found >> Assuming it is an old-style package... (this is deprecated: use -p instead >> of -i to install old-style packages) >> >> tee: /projects/sage/sage-7.3/logs/pkgs/polytopes_db_4d.log: Permission denied >> /projects/sage/sage-7.3/build/bin/sage-spkg: line 283: cd: >> /projects/sage/sage-7.3/upstream: No such file or directory >> Attempting to download package polytopes_db_4d >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/projects/sage/sage-7.3/build/bin/sage-download-file", line 27, in >> <module> >> from sage_bootstrap.download.cmdline import run_safe >> File >> "/projects/sage/sage-7.3/build/bin/../sage_bootstrap/download/__init__.py", >> line 8, in <module> >> from sage_bootstrap.download.mirror_list import MirrorList >> File >> "/projects/sage/sage-7.3/build/bin/../sage_bootstrap/download/mirror_list.py", >> line 22, in <module> >> from sage_bootstrap.env import SAGE_DISTFILES >> File "/projects/sage/sage-7.3/build/bin/../sage_bootstrap/env.py", line 47, >> in <module> >> assert os.path.isdir(SAGE_DISTFILES) >> AssertionError >> >> *** >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks-- >> Ursula. >> >> -- >> 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 sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large > Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income > -------- > Experience is what you get > when you don't get what you want. > -------- > > > > -- > 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 sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://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 sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
