The link to ubuntuforums did reveal what was happening! I have tried to compile 5.4rc2, and upon getting to setuptools-0.6.16.p0.spkg, I get the following error:
patching file setuptools/command/easy_install.py > sys:1: RuntimeWarning: not adding directory >> '/sage-5.4.rc2/spkg/build/setuptools-0.6.16.p0/src' to sys.path since it's >> not owned by a trusted user. > > Running chown to change the ownership of that directory to root didn't help (I could have done something wrong, but I don't think I did). Adding the directory in question to sys.path after running "python" didn't seem to help, either. I really don't know what I'm doing, to be honest. I just thought I'd give an update. (The pre-built binaries on sagemath.org seemed to work just fine, so I may just use those.) Perhaps it is time for me to graduate from the Ubuntu variants to something more sophisticated. Time to learn some *Python, *too*.* Best, Miguel -- 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.
