Thanks for your help! cp does not have the -a option on my mac and cp -pR leads to the following error message after startup:
"Warning: something went wrong updating the easy-install.pth file." However, this time no other problems occurred and I was able to run the notebook server from the new directory, so I proceeded with running ./sage -upgrade. Another warning message came up: "WARNING: This is a source/based upgrade, which could take hours, fail and render your Sage install useless!!" It's not a problem since I'm running it on the Sage copy now, but 'hours' is what a fresh compilation from source would take anyway, so would I possibly be better off installing the whole thing from source? I'll see how long it takes. If it works, I shall try Mike's tar approach to move the compiled version from one laptop to another. Cheers, Stan Jason Grout wrote: > John H Palmieri wrote: > >> On Mar 12, 11:38 am, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- >> dortmund.de> wrote: >> >>> Never us cp to copy Sage unless you know what you are doing, but use >>> tar. >>> >> Hm. I've never had any problems using cp; in fact I routinely do it >> before running 'sage -upgrade'. Does 'cp -pR' count as "knowing what >> I'm doing"? >> >> > > Is devel/sage a link in your copy? > > My guess is that using cp -a (which is the same as cp -dpR) works. The > "-d" preserves links. This is using gnu cp; I don't know about a mac, > though I think the archive option "-a" is even better there. > > mabshoff: comments? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
