On Dec 12, 2007 10:44 AM, Cliff Sojourner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> having trouble with google groups (it says I joined the sage-support group
> but won't let me post anything to the list) - sorry to bother you.
>
> I'm eager to try SAGE so I downloaded
> /sage-2.8.15-rhel-32bit-i686-Linux.tar.gz,
> unzipped, fixed up SAGE_HOME, and tried to run it.
>
> here's what I got:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sage]$ ./sage
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | SAGE Version 2.8.15, Release Date: 2007-12-03 |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /home/csojourner/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 149: 2631 Floating point
> exception"$SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/"sage-location
> /home/csojourner/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 210: 2632 Floating point
> exceptionsage-cleaner
> /home/csojourner/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 210: 2633 Floating point
> exceptionsage-ipython -c "$SAGE_STARTUP_COMMAND;" "$@"
>
>
> any ideas? bash resolves $SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/"sage-location correctly
> so I don't see why it should print "Floating point exception".
This is because the hardware I built the binary on is somehow incompatible
with your hardware. Would it be OK with you if you build from source? This
is *very* easy to do:
1. Grab the latest source tarball here:
http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/dist/src/
2. Type
tar xvf sage-2.8.15.tar
cd sage-2.8.15
make
3. Wait up to 2 hours.
You just have to have gcc, g++, and make installed -- there aren't any other
dependencies.
In the meantime go to http://sagenb.com, create an account and play around.
>
> This is on Red Hat linux, fedora core 3:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sage]$ uname -a
> Linux csojourner-lab1.packeteer.com 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21
> 04:03:26 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> oh by the way, your SAGE tutorial is really well written! I am
Thanks.
> an experienced python programmer so it was a fast read for me, but
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cool. Hopefully you'll consider contributing to Sage, which is mostly
written in Python. :-)
> it will be a good reference book too - hallmark of well-written documentation.
Thanks.
William
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