Re: [sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-05 Thread Volker Braun
On Thursday, May 5, 2011 1:50:31 PM UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > So anyone writing scripts with a -r option to mv is asking for trouble. > I don't even have an idea of what mv -r is supposed to do. Move recursively? mv always moves included subdirectories. Maybe it turns off the recursiven

Re: [sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 05/ 4/11 10:19 PM, John Cremona wrote: Simon, I have tried and failed to load the large SW database (and complained about this to William yesterday). All the spkg_install scripts is to move a whole lot of files, but it uses the command "mv -r" which is illegal on my machines (ubuntu linux).

[sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-04 Thread Simon King
Hi Foad and John, On 4 Mai, 23:55, Simon King wrote: > On 4 Mai, 23:19, John Cremona wrote: > > > I have tried and failed to load the large SW database (and complained > > about this to William yesterday).  All the spkg_install scripts is to > > move a whole lot of files, but it uses the command

[sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-04 Thread Simon King
Hi John, On 4 Mai, 23:19, John Cremona wrote: > I have tried and failed to load the large SW database (and complained > about this to William yesterday).  All the spkg_install scripts is to > move a whole lot of files, but it uses the command "mv -r" which is > illegal on my machines (ubuntu linu

[sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-04 Thread John Cremona
Simon, I have tried and failed to load the large SW database (and complained about this to William yesterday). All the spkg_install scripts is to move a whole lot of files, but it uses the command "mv -r" which is illegal on my machines (ubuntu linux). Which READMA were you referring to? John

[sage-support] Re: install additional package

2011-05-04 Thread Simon King
Hi Foad, On 4 Mai, 10:35, Foad Khoshnam wrote: > Hi > How I can install the huge additional package for sage in linux? Do you mean the Stein-Watkins database? The package can be found at http://www.sagemath.org/sagedb/ (it is the file stein-watkins- ecdb.spkg), and I guess it is recommended to