On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Alessandro Torre
<adessobastadavv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello to everybody.
> I can't make Sage works on windows and I'm going crazy.
>
> When typing "sage" or "notebook" on the welcome screen of the VMware
> Player nothing happens.
> If I type "manage" and then "sage" the following message appears:
>
> ------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 3.4.1, (etc..) |
> ------------------------------------------
> usr/local/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 198: 3558 Illegal
> instruction sage-ipython "$@" -i
>
>
> What have I missed?
>
> VMware 2.5.2 on Windows XP sp3 .
> AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ 2.00 GHz, 1.50 GB Ram
> 0 MB Paging File
>
> Is it possible that my processor is obsolete for this version of Sage?
Yes.
What is the output of
cat /proc/cpuinfo
after you login as "manage"?
Anyway, you might have to build Sage from source. This is actually
easier than you might think. Do all of the following after login as
"manage" and typing "sudo su".
1. Delete /usr/local/sage, then
cd /usr/local; rm -rf sage
2. download sage-3.4.1.tar by typing
wget http://sagemath.org/src/sage-3.4.1.tar
3. extract it,
tar xf sage-3.4.1.tar
4. move it to be /usr/local/sage, and
mv sage-3.4.1 sage
5. build Sage -- this will take a few hours (no manual intervention):
cd sage; make
> I've set my paging file to 0 MB. Could it be a problem?
You could try setting it larger and see what happens.
-- William
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