Thanks for the suggestion,
by the way I understand from you first message that you had troubles
compiling from source on MacOSX 10.4.11,
in case I decide to try it myself,
is it a PowerPC machine?
What kind of problem did you encounter?

Regards
Giovanni

On Oct 20, 9:45 am, Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, sorry, I didn't see the PowerBook bit. I don't know what causes the
> error, but if you don't want to wait for someone to solve the problem, I
> would suggest to compile from source. This takes a few hours but usually
> works well and I have been told that the self-compiled version even runs
> faster.
>
> Stan
>
> abaco68 wrote:
> > Dear Stan
>
> > I found it here, for instance:
>
> >http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/sagemath/osx/index.html
>
> > but indeed only for PowerPC
>
> > Regards
>
> > Giovanni
>
> > On Oct 20, 8:32 am, Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Dear Giovanni,
>
> >> Could you tell me where you found a dmg for 10.4.11? I tried to compile
> >> from source on my 10.4.11 box without success, then I tried to download
> >> a binary instead, but only found binaries for 10.5 and 10.6.
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Stan
>
> >> abaco68 wrote:
>
> >>> Hi
> >>> I have installed sage 4.1.2 on a PowerBook 5.58 with MacOSX 10.4.11 a
> >>> cording to
> >>> the procedure detailed in the README.txt file.
> >>> The first time I run sage it tries to initialize the installation but
> >>> it fails with the error message
> >>>  enclosed hereafter. I have tried twice to download the .dmg file,
> >>> unpack it, copy the sage folder
> >>> to my disk , then run sage and I always get the same error.
> >>> I must add that the sage folder is copied to an external firewire disk
> >>> to a folder that has
> >>> the same permissions as the "/Applications" folder on the internal
> >>> harddisk.
>
> >>> Thanks for any help / suggestion
>
> >>> Giovanni
>
> >>> Error mesage follows here:
>
> >>> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call
> >>> last)
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/bin/<string> in <module>
> >>> ()
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/preparser_ipython.py in <module>()
> >>>       6
> >>> ###########################################################################
>
> >>>       7
> >>> ----> 8 import sage.misc.interpreter
> >>>       9
> >>>      10 import preparser
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/interpreter.py in <module>()
> >>>     100
> >>>     101 import os
> >>> --> 102 import log
> >>>     103
> >>>     104 import remote_file
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/log.py in <module>()
> >>>      63
> >>>      64 import interpreter
> >>> ---> 65 import latex
> >>>      66 import misc
> >>>      67
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/latex.py in <module>()
> >>>      40 import random
> >>>      41
> >>> ---> 42 from misc import tmp_dir, graphics_filename
> >>>      43 import sage_eval
> >>>      44 from sage.misc.misc import SAGE_DOC
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/misc.py in <module>()
> >>>      26
> >>>      27 import operator, os, stat, socket, sys, signal, time, weakref,
> >>> resource, math
> >>> ---> 28 import sage.misc.prandom as random
> >>>      29
> >>>      30 from banner import version, banner
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/prandom.py in <module>()
> >>>      54 # setting seeds should only be done through
> >>> sage.misc.randstate .
>
> >>>      55
> >>> ---> 56 from sage.misc.randstate import current_randstate
> >>>      57
> >>>      58 def _pyrand():
>
> >>> ImportError: dlopen(/Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/
> >>> python2.6/site-packages/sage/misc/randstate.so, 2): Library not
> >>> loaded: /home/wstein/screen/varro/build/sage-4.1.2/local/lib/libgmp.
> >>> 3.dylib
> >>>   Referenced from: /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib//
> >>> libcsage.dylib
> >>>   Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
> >>>         /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib//libgmp.
> >>> 3.dylib: incompatible cpu-subtype
> >>> WARNING: Failure executing code: 'import sage.misc.preparser_ipython;
> >>> sage.misc.preparser_ipython.magma_colon_equals=True'
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call
> >>> last)
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/IPython/ipmaker.pyc in force_import(modname)
> >>>      64         reload(sys.modules[modname])
> >>>      65     else:
> >>> ---> 66         __import__(modname)
> >>>      67
> >>>      68
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/bin/ipy_profile_sage.py
> >>> in <module>()
> >>>       1 import os
> >>>       2 if 'SAGE_CLEAN' not in os.environ:
> >>> ----> 3     import sage.misc.misc
> >>>       4     from sage.misc.interpreter import preparser, _ip
> >>>       5     preparser(True)
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/misc.py in <module>()
> >>>      26
> >>>      27 import operator, os, stat, socket, sys, signal, time, weakref,
> >>> resource, math
> >>> ---> 28 import sage.misc.prandom as random
> >>>      29
> >>>      30 from banner import version, banner
>
> >>> /Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> >>> packages/sage/misc/prandom.py in <module>()
> >>>      54 # setting seeds should only be done through
> >>> sage.misc.randstate .
>
> >>>      55
> >>> ---> 56 from sage.misc.randstate import current_randstate
> >>>      57
> >>>      58 def _pyrand():
>
> >>> ImportError: dlopen(/Volumes/MyBookData385/Applications/sage/local/lib/
> >>> python2.6/site-packages/sage/misc/randstate.so, 2): corrupt binary,
> >>> library ordinal too big
> >>> Error importing ipy_profile_sage - perhaps you should run %upgrade?
> >>> WARNING: Loading of ipy_profile_sage failed.
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