When I try to drag the "sage" folder from /Applications to Terminal, the following message appears:
------------------- You must compile Sage first using 'make' in the Sage root directory. (If you have already compiled Sage, you must set the SAGE_ROOT variable in the file '/Applications/sage'). ------------------- Please help. On Jun 21, 10:57 pm, Paul Sargent <psa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 Jun 2009, at 14:00, William Stein wrote: > > > > > > > > > 2009/6/21 lim <pete...@net-yan.com>: > > >> Hi > > >> I encountered the IO Error: [Errno 30].... (last line of the the > >> below > >> quoted message) while installing Sage. Can anyone out there please > >> help? > > >> IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/Volumes/sage-4.0.1- > >> OSX10.5-Intel-i386-Darwin/sage/local/lib/libcord.la' > > Try starting Sage from the terminal and typing > > > cd /Volumes/sage-4.0.1-OSX10.5-Intel-i386-Darwin/sage > > sudo ./sage > > I think the problem is that you're trying to run it from the Disk > Image, without copying it to the hard drive. The disk image is read- > only, and sage is trying to initialise itself. > > It's not like a normal Mac OS app, in that it needs to be able to > write to where-ever you run it from (at least the first time you run > it). > > If you install it in /Applications (although you don't have to), and > you try to run it with a non-admin user then you'll need to do the > trick that the prof. suggested. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
