The Sage virtual appliance compiles Sage from source when creating the VM, so it has everything necessary to develop Sage.
There is a version for the newest Sage release at http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/sage-5.3.ova but we are currently not distributing it because auto-login is broken in the notebook (would be great if it could be fixed by somebody working on the notebook code) On Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:53:18 AM UTC+1, P Purkayastha wrote: > > Not so sure if the virtualbox sage has got all the sources. IIRC, the > virtualbox sage is also stuck at 5.1 for various reasons. I am not sure if > the virtualbox Linux installation has an environment set up for > development. Probably vbraun can give some insight into that. This is > important because the virtualbox sage is a bit old and the new UI can be > most easily set up,as described below, in sage-5.4beta1 (the latest dev > release of sage). > > The new UI will run only on sage-5.2 and up. For sage-5.2 and 5.3, you > will need to install a bunch of patches to the Sage library. All these > patches have been integrated into the sage-5.4.beta1. In sage-5.4beta1, all > one needs to do is > > 1. clone the git repository of samuela's sagenb, by (for example) issuing > the commands > cd SAGE_ROOT/devel > git clone g...@github.com:samuela/sagenb sagenb-git > > 2. switch over the SAGE_ROOT/devel/sagenb symbolic link to the git version > of samuela's sagenb, by using > rm sagenb && ln -s sagenb-git sagenb > > 3. change directory to SAGE_ROOT/devel/sagenb, > cd sagenb > > 4. run the command > ../../sage -python setup.py develop > > > Then the new UI will be functional. There are still some bugs which needs > ironing out. So, if you have the time and energy to tinker around, do join > in in fixing the bugs! :) > > On Saturday, September 22, 2012 6:39:23 PM UTC+8, alxy wrote: >> >> But is it possible to install this on my virtualbox-SAGE? >> Have no experience with linux things :P >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
