On Jan 15, 2008 9:31 PM, jdmitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > This is my first post to the developer group so please bear with me. > Also, I don't mean to distract you from any pressing matters so take > your time.
Hi, I just want to remark quickly that I am very appreciative for you providing this, and that we've all just been very busy and haven't had a chance to respond. Your contribution is actually nicely complementary to that of another person related to the same problem. Again, many thanks!! And, we will get to this. -- William > > Earlier today I downloaded > http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/apple_osx/intel/sage-2.9.2-osx10.4-intel-i386-Darwin.dmg > for installation on my Macbook. When I mounted the image, I checked > out the 'sage-README-osx.txt' file in the 'sage' directory. It > provides the following steps for installing SAGE: > > ------------------------- > > 1) Download the dmg somewhere and double click on it. > 2) Drag the sage folder somewhere, e.g., /Applications > 3) Use finder to visit the sage folder you just copied it and double > click on the "sage" icon. > 4) Select to run it with "Terminal": > Choose Applications, then select "All Applications" in the > "Enable:" drop down. Change the "Applications" drop down > to "Utilities". On the left, scroll and select "Terminal". > Click "Open", then in the next dialog select "Update". > 5) SAGE should pop up in a window. > 6) For the graphical notebook, type > notebook() > and follow the directions, which are to open firefox or safari > (your choice) > to the URL > http://localhost:8000 > If you are on a single user machine, using inotebook() is a little > easier. > 7) Email > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > with any questions. > > ------------------------------------- > > At the end it suggests that somebody could automate steps 4-6. Well, > I started tinkering around because I was curious about package > installers in OS X. I just finished making an installer package for > Intel i386 OS X 10.4 systems. I'd like to share it, but it's about > 250 mb and unfortunately I don't have a server to distribute it from. > If anyone knows where I could post it, please let me know. > > Currently it is in the form of an Installer Package rather than a Disk > Image. This means the user would just have to double click on the > file and go through an installation wizard to install SAGE > (effectively the same as steps 1-3). Toward the end of installation, > a script starts SAGE in the Terminal.app so that the install PATH can > be hard coded (which I believe is always done when SAGE is placed in a > new directory). > > I still need to automate step 4 somehow, but I haven't quite figured > out how to tell OS X what the default program ('Terminal.app') should > be for a particular file ('sage'). One option might be to make a > separate file that the end-user would run that has the line: > > open -a /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app '/Applications/sage/ > sage' # opens SAGE in Terminal.app > > It would also be possible to write another similar script that would > start the notebook. Perhaps these scripts could be placed in the / > Applications folder for easier access. However, this could annoy Mac > users who are used to most applications being in the form of a single > *.app file. > > Any opinions/suggestions? Thanks. > > -Jake Mitchell > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
