On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:51 AM, chu-ching huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I has used Python very long time and installed several python > packages, including scipy, numpy, vpython for sciebtific computation. > As general defaulted, they are installed /usr/lib/python2.5/site- > packages in my linux system. > > Now I try to install Sage from source. The setup seems to install > the same python packages in the Sage directory even they had already > installed in my system and almost the latest version.
Yes, that is correct. > How do I let > "Sage setup" know it is not necessary to download source and install > such packages. Unfortunately, you can't. By the way, Sage does not *download* anything when it is being installed. By the way, you can modify sys.path in Sage so that it's possible to use your existing system-wide Python modules in some cases... > > Best regards, > > chu-ching > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
