Sorry, but I don't quite understand what mean by the "Sage tree". You mean under the SAGE directory? There is a gap/ directory under my .sage/ directory should I try installing XGAP there? And when you say "check the instruction" what "instruction" are you talking about?
I have just switched to linux from Windows so many things are new to me. On Jan 24, 9:26 am, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de> wrote: > On Jan 24, 9:21 am, pong <wypon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I want to use XGAP (a graphical interface for GAP). Since GAP comes > > with SAGE, I wonder if one can make use of that somehow instead of > > installing GAP separately on the machine. > > Did you try installing XGAP into the Sage tree? I check the > instructions and I guess it wouldn't be too hard. > > Another possibility: touch spkg/installed/gap-4.4.10.p10 before > building GAP in Sage and it will pick up the global one. Note that > this is not a supported configuration, so if things go bad even with > unrelated changes you ought to tell us in that case that you are using > an external GAP. > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---