Stan Schymanski wrote: > 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:
Oh, that's right. On a mac, the "ditto" command is nice. > > "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. Well, IIRC, it won't have to compile spkgs that didn't change. However, for every spkg that has been updated, you will have to compile that spkg. Typically it's much faster than compiling fresh from source. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
