On Thu, 28 May 2009 at 05:56PM -0700, mathgeek wrote: > > Did you install Sage through apt or Synaptic? If so, you should know > > that the version of Sage available in Ubuntu does not pass doctests, so > > it's somewhat pointless to even run the tests. > > I'm not exactly sure what that is. I opened the terminal, typed sage > and it asked me if I wanted to install it. It installed from the > Ubuntu site, at least somewhere, I kept seeing the http links to where > it was downloading from. It is also release 3.0.5, so a bit outdated.
Okay, you used Ubuntu's native package system to install Sage. We hope
to have a much newer version available through Ubuntu soon.
> Is there an easy way to uninstall this and install it the proper way?
To uninstall Sage after using the Ubuntu package manager to install it,
you can either do
$ sudo aptitude purge sagemath
in a terminal, or click on the System menu, then choose Administration
-> Synaptic Package Manager. In the quick search box, type "sagemath",
and click the green box, select "mark for removal", and then click Apply
on the menu bar.
> I also downloaded the tar.gz file for the atom architecture, but
> wasn't sure where to install it to make it work best. Any help would
> be great :) Thanks much for your reply.
If you have a computer with an Atom CPU, then you can extract the
archive anywhere you like; it's self-contained. To make the basic "sage"
script available to your shell, you can change to the directory where
you extracted the archive, then do "sudo ./sage", then run the command
"install_scripts('/usr/local/bin')" to install the various scripts that
Sage ships with. You can change /usr/local/bin to another directory, but
if you're new to Linux, it's probably best to keep it that way for now.
(If you *don't* have a computer with an Atom CPU, then you downloaded
the wrong binary, and need to get one that matches your computer.)
Dan
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