Well done. I've built it from source. (To be honest, all you do is watch the mighty programm building itself) It took a while, but Sage it running very fast now.
But when it comes to plotting, Sage says Firefox hasn't enabled Java, what is simply wrong. What shall I do? Thanks for the help! yours, littlemathteacher On 14 Feb., 01:26, littlemathteacher <relational...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Michael. > > Thanks for the support. I'm going to try and build from source. By the > way I'm quite new into linux and haven't ever done such a thing, but > as in swimming or in mountain climbing for everyone someday the day > has come to do the thing on your own. So I have to face the fact that > tonight (it's 1:30 am in Germany) is the night. > > Thanks. > > Yours, littlemathteacher. > > On 13 Feb., 23:21, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- > > dortmund.de> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2:09 pm, littlemathteacher <relational...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry, I should mention that this machine has Ubuntu 8.04 (the one I'd > > > prefer) and also Vista (Longhorn) installed. > > > > Thanks > > > Could you post the output from > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > This would help to assure that you don't get a binary which requires > > too advanced SSE instructions. In general it is easiest to build from > > source, so assuming you have build-essential installed on Ubuntu you > > can just download the source tarball and run "make" and come back > > after a couple hours and Sage should have finished building. It is > > easier than it sounds and you will get a binary with optimum > > performance and tuning for your computer. If you run into any trouble > > just let us know and we will do our best to help you fix the problem. > > > If you want to run Sage on Windows you need to install the VMWare > > player (which is free as in beer) from the VMWare website. But this > > requires that you have at least PNI (hence the question about the / > > proc/cpuinfo output) since the current Sage 3.2.3 VMWare image was > > build with PNI. > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---