The following comes from a friend and long-time gap user who has decided to give sage a real try. How tough would it be to make the install choices more clear? Also, should I tell him "sage-4.5.3- OSX-32bit-10.5-i386-Darwin.dmg" (note that it's an older version of sage too)?
thanks, Niles I want to install sage on my laptop here at home -- OS X 10.5.8, 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Even though I've read the sage download instructions about what version to download, and I'm a fairly smart person, I don't know which version to download -- it seems they never actually explain all the substrings of the names of the download files. I'm in the Mac OS X / Intel directory of their download server, and here are the choices: sage-4.6.1-OSX-64bit-10.6-i386-Darwin.dmg meta 499.99 MB2011-01-13 15:05 MD5: c5ef779b67eba71ca9acf4e9aebec9ce sage-4.6.1-OSX-64bit-10.6-i386-Darwin-app.dmg meta 498.58 MB2011-01-13 15:05 MD5: 76239f78e6ca93520141359fda2bfd19 sage-4.6-OSX-32bit-10.4-i386-Darwin.dmg meta 539.81 MB2010-11-03 11:10 MD5: c2f29636e13748538318c68636f7c82c sage-4.5.3-OSX-32bit-10.5-i386-Darwin.dmg meta 395.97 MB2010-09-10 09:06 MD5: 23813336189749da8732f86953f77d7d I know I have a 64bit OS and processor, so the first two seem better. But I'm running OS X 10.5, not 10.6, so the 10.6 in the filenames scares me. Also I could not find any information about the difference between the -Darwin and the -Darwin-app versions. Should I go for the older sage-4.5.3 32-bit version because I'm running Leopard and not Snow Leopard? -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
