Thanks for the replies. I did not know spkg was tar file also.
This is a small bash script which extracts the source code. It looks like everything is in the /standard folder $ cat extract_source.sh #!/bin/bash cd sage-3.1.4/spkg/standard for i in $( ls *.spkg ); do echo extracting file $i tar -xjf $i done This below is listing of the above. I only show it because I saw couple of errors from some of the packages in case someone wants to looks into it. ----- extract sage source on windows under cygwin ---- $ ./extract_source.sh extracting file atlas-3.8.1.p3.spkg extracting file blas-20070724.spkg extracting file cddlib-094b.p3.spkg extracting file clisp-2.46.p7.spkg extracting file conway_polynomials-0.2.spkg extracting file cvxopt-0.9.p7.spkg extracting file cython-0.9.8.1.1.p0.spkg extracting file doc-3.1.4.spkg extracting file docutils-0.5.spkg extracting file eclib-20080310.p7.spkg extracting file ecm-6.1.3.p0.spkg extracting file elliptic_curves-0.1.spkg extracting file examples-3.1.4.spkg extracting file extcode-3.1.4.spkg extracting file f2c-20070816.p0.spkg extracting file flint-1.0.13.p0.spkg extracting file flintqs-20070817.p3.spkg extracting file fortran-20071120.p5.spkg bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors extracting file freetype-2.3.5.p0.spkg extracting file gap-4.4.10.p10.spkg extracting file gd-2.0.35.p1.spkg extracting file gdmodule-0.56.p4.spkg extracting file genus2reduction-0.3.p3.spkg extracting file gfan-0.3.p4.spkg extracting file ghmm-20080813.spkg extracting file givaro-3.2.13rc2.spkg extracting file gmp-4.2.2.p1.fake.spkg extracting file gnutls-2.2.1.p1.spkg extracting file graphs-20070722.spkg extracting file gsl-1.10.p1.spkg extracting file iml-1.0.1.p11.spkg extracting file ipython-0.8.4.p0.spkg extracting file ipython1-20070130.spkg extracting file jinja-1.2.spkg extracting file jmol-11.6.rc8.spkg extracting file lapack-20071123.p0.spkg extracting file lcalc-20080205.p2.spkg extracting file libfplll-2.1.6-20071129.p5.spkg extracting file libgcrypt-1.4.0.p2.spkg extracting file libgpg_error-1.6.p0.spkg extracting file libm4ri-20080909.spkg extracting file libpng-1.2.22.p8.spkg extracting file linbox-1.1.6.spkg extracting file matplotlib-0.98.3.p2.spkg extracting file maxima-5.16.3.spkg extracting file mercurial-1.01.p1.spkg extracting file moin-1.5.7.p2.spkg extracting file mpfi-1.3.4-cvs20071125.p7.spkg extracting file mpfr-2.3.2.spkg extracting file networkx-0.36.p1.spkg extracting file ntl-5.4.2.p4.spkg extracting file numpy-1.2.0.p0.spkg extracting file opencdk-0.6.6.spkg extracting file palp-1.1.p1.spkg extracting file pari-2.3.3.p0.spkg extracting file pexpect-2.0.p1.spkg extracting file polybori-0.5rc.p5.spkg tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux: Cannot mkdir: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/ stepbystep.install: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/ get_sat_table.sh: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/ beautify_units.sh: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/check_mem.sh: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/timeout.sh: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/Skeleton.h: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: polybori-0.5rc.p5/src/polybori-0.5rc/polybori/aux/release.sh: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors extracting file polytopes_db-20080430.spkg extracting file pycrypto-2.0.1.p2.spkg extracting file pygments-0.11.1.spkg extracting file pynac-0.1.p0.spkg extracting file pyprocessing-0.52.spkg extracting file python-2.5.2.p8.spkg extracting file python_gnutls-1.1.4.p3.spkg extracting file quaddouble-2.2.p9.spkg extracting file r-2.6.1.p21.spkg extracting file readline-5.2.p4.spkg extracting file rubiks-20070912.p8.spkg extracting file sage-3.1.4.spkg extracting file sage_scripts-3.1.4.spkg extracting file scipy-20071020-0.6.p4.spkg extracting file scipy_sandbox-20071020.p3.spkg extracting file scons-0.97.0d20071212.spkg extracting file setuptools-0.6c8.p1.spkg extracting file singular-3-0-4-4-20080711.p1.spkg extracting file sphinx-0.5.0svn66624.p0.spkg extracting file sqlalchemy-0.4.6.p0.spkg extracting file sqlite-3.5.3.p3.spkg extracting file symmetrica-2.0.p2.spkg extracting file sympow-1.018.1.p5.spkg extracting file sympy-0.6.2.spkg extracting file tachyon-0.98beta.p6.spkg extracting file termcap-1.3.1.p0.spkg extracting file twisted-8.1.0.p1.spkg extracting file weave-0.4.9.spkg extracting file zlib-1.2.3.p4.spkg extracting file zn_poly-0.9.p0.spkg extracting file zodb3-3.7.0.p1.spkg $ Nasser --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---