Hello all,
I had (have) some minor troubles running sage under OS X 10.6, that I
thought I would report here:
A) The installation instructions don't make sense. In particular, the
following paragraph in sage-README-osx.txt doesn't appear to
correspond to reality. (Probably it did in a previous operating
system.)
4) Select to run it with "Terminal":
Choose Applications, then select "All Applications" in the
"Enable:" drop down. Change the "Applications" drop down
to "Utilities". On the left, scroll and select "Terminal".
Click "Open", then in the next dialog select "Update".
There is nowhere on the left" to scroll. There is no "open" button.
There is no "next dialog" on which to select update. If all this is
just to make sage run in terminal mode, this now seems to be the
default, and perhaps the whole paragraph can just be deleted.
It also doesn't mention that it is necessary to open the sage shell
script and change SAGE_ROOT from "..." to the directory where sage in
installed. (So far as I can tell, this is necessary.)
B) Weave doesn't work. Following Aku Kotkavuo's instructions at
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/msg/21d17df3acf3406d
fixes the issue. (I realize this is probably scipy's problem, not
sage's.)
C) There is a huge mess of permissions errors preventing installation
from working. I was able to get it to work by manually creating
the .sage directory in my home directory, and running sage as root.
An example of the errors I get when I run sage as non-root is below.
(I think what is happening is that sage changes the permissions of
the .sage directory in such a way that it can no longer access it?)
domke:~ Justin$ /Applications/sage/sage ; exit;
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| Sage Version 4.2, Release Date: 2009-10-24 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
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cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython: Permission denied
cp: /Applications/sage/ipython: unable to copy extended attributes to /
Users/Justin/.sage/ipython: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipy_profile_sh.py: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipy_user_conf.py: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipy_user_conf.pyc: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc-math: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc-numeric: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc-physics: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc-pysh: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc-scipy: Permission denied
cp: /Users/Justin/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc-tutorial: Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-cleaner", line 28, in
<module>
os.makedirs(tmp)
File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python/os.py", line 150, in
makedirs
makedirs(head, mode)
File "/Applications/sage/local/lib/python/os.py", line 157, in
makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/Justin/.sage//temp'
**********************************************************************
Welcome to IPython. I will try to create a personal configuration
directory
where you can customize many aspects of IPython's functionality in:
/Users/Justin/.sage/ipython
Initializing from configuration /Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/
site-packages/IPython/UserConfig
WARNING:
There was a problem with the installation:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/Justin/.sage/ipython'
Try to correct it or contact the developers if you think it's a bug.
IPython will proceed with builtin defaults.
Please press <RETURN> to start IPython.
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