I've used http://www.sagenb.org extensively in my AP Calculus BC classes. I use the liveCD at just about every conference I attend. In fact, I'm giving a presentation tomorrow with the liveCD to entice students to sign up for a new Calculus Research Lab for next year.
So, sorry for being dense, but I must be missing something fundamental here when trying to install SAGE to a Linux partition for my Calculus students. I have a LAN of HP PCs with AMD dual core 64 bit Athlons where I have installed the Fedora 12 DVD for my AP Computer Science classes. Silly me, I decided to download the SAGE 4.3.1 Fedora 12 x86_64 binary and install it. Well the download went fine, the md5 checked out and it seems to have extracted correctly to my /home dir. So, I tried running SAGE in a terminal from the SAGE dir that was created. I got a welcome message about typing notebook() to start the GUI and then some sort of error message about not being able to run an executable. It looks like it was in the bin/python dir when it crashed. Anyone know what went wrong here and how to fix it? One thing comes to mind. The download page (Harvard?) said something about apt-getting gfortran before running SAGE. Well, that's a Debian command, so I tried "yum install gfortran" but Fedora didn't find it. I was hoping that gfortran was only needed when compiling from source, not when running the binaries.... Please help, A. Jorge Garcia http://calcpage.tripod.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
