Thanks a lot for your replies... The following two commands work now
flor...@base:~/sage/sage-3.4$ sudo ./sage factor.sage 2006 2 * 17 * 59 and flor...@base:~/sage/sage-3.4$ sudo ./sage ./factor 2006 2 * 17 * 59 In the second case I changed the first line of the file to #! /path/to/sage -python as suggested by Kevin Nevertheless there is still the mess with the execute rights. I am a newbie in linux and therefore I am not sure what I am doing wrong. with chmod 777 factor I gave all right to everybody, but still if I try flor...@base:~/sage/sage-3.4$ ./sage ./factor 2006 [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/florian/.sage//temp' Furthermore I can't start sage with the command sage I need to type sudo ./sage thank you very much and best regards florian p.s. flor...@base:~/sage/sage-3.4$ ls -l total 15684 -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 71842 2009-04-19 15:38 COPYING.txt drwxr-xr-x 8 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 18:17 data drwxr-xr-x 4 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 17:15 devel drwxr-xr-x 16 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 18:02 examples -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 243 2009-05-22 10:20 factor -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 228 2009-05-22 10:17 factor~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 2009-05-22 10:21 factor.py -rwxr-xr-x 1 florian florian 228 2009-05-22 10:17 factor.sage -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 245 2009-05-22 10:14 factor.sage~ -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 81 2009-04-19 15:38 file.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 428348 2009-04-19 15:38 HISTORY.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 15381770 2009-04-19 18:17 install.log drwxr-xr-x 2 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 15:38 ipython drwxr-xr-x 15 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 18:17 local -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 1964 2009-03-11 15:38 makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 8885 2009-04-19 15:38 README.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 florian florian 1449 2009-03-11 15:38 sage -rwxr-xr-x 1 florian florian 38 2009-04-19 15:38 sage-python -rwxr-xr-x 1 florian florian 1513 2009-04-19 15:38 sage-README- osx.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 florian florian 54456 2009-03-11 15:38 script.sage drwxr-xr-x 6 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 15:38 spkg drwxr-xr-x 2 florian florian 4096 2009-04-19 15:38 tmp flor...@base:~/sage/sage-3.4$ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---