Hi Victor, On 6 Aug., 14:17, VictorMiller <victorsmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Georg, Thanks. My situation is a bit unique (as William fully > understands). Copying the sage source from sagemath.org is not an > option that I have. Our sysadmins get the source and then build it > and make a built directory available to us on the system. I have to > proceed from there.
I don't know *how* special your situation is. But certainly you do not need to be "root" in order to build and execute Sage. Just download the tarball in your favourite directoory in your home tree (where you have write permissions), say, ~/foo/bar/, and build sage there, hence: - go to ~/foo/bar/sage-4... (whatever version it is), - type "make" - go for lunch - after lunch, provided sage is built, edit the file "sage" in this folder. What you need to do is to provide an appropriate value for SAGE_ROOT, which here is ~/foo/bar/sage-4... - Then, still being in this directory, you can start sage by ./sage In that way, you can easily have various copies or different versions of sage in parallel, and they do not interfere with the Sage installation of your sysadmin. Of course, if you just do "sage", you would still get the sysadmin- version of Sage, since this is in your path. But in any directory you would be able to start your private copy of Sage by "~/foo/bar/sage-4..../sage" I think this is quite common for sage-devels. Cheers, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
