Thank you for the reply!
On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:20 AM, mabshoff wrote: >> 1. I had some confusion when I ran sage the first time, because it >> complained about permissions for creating some files. So I ran it >> with sudo in front, and it worked fine. Now thereafter, I can run it >> without sudo and it doesn't complain. So it seems the first run has >> to have privileges to make certain files?? > > No, do you remember which files it was complaining about? This should > not happen unless you unpack Sage as root and then run it as a non- > root user user. This would explain the need to run Sage with sudo once > and then it worked without it. Unfortunately, because I'm doing this under VirtualBox and JeOS (as in Dan's tutorial--link below) what scrolls off the screen is gone for good. But I should mention that when I followed Dan's directions for downloading SAGE, the first time I ran it, it said my processor was incompatible with the one on which the binary was compiled, so I should expect invalid instruction errors, and my only option was to build from sources. So I deleted that installation, downloaded the sources, and built them. And yes, IIRC I did the unpacking and the making with "sudo" in front. If doing so has painted myself into a corner, then including in Dan's wiki page what people in my situation *should* do instead is, I think, essential. The processor isn't even that old, so this may impact a nontrivial percentage of that page's readers. Well, not *that* old; it's a 3.something GHz Pentium something. >> 2. When I run sage start_notebook.sage it claims that nb1 cannot run >> the command sage (no such file or directory). I thought perhaps I >> had >> to add the sage path to that user's ~/.bashrc, but that did not fix >> the problem. Thus the whole "sage start_notebook.sage" fails in the >> end. > > You can invoke the notebook via ./sage -notebook, but if you post > start_notebook.sage or tell us what you want to do I am sure this can > be sorted out. The start_notebook.sage is the one in Dan's wiki article, mentioned in the first post in this thread. Here's the link for convenience; the .sage file is at the bottom (linked). http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer Thanks again for any assistance available! Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
