Thanks for the replies everyone. I tried it, and as someone mentioned, the space between eigenvalues and () doesn't make a difference.
So I tried updating. I installed the binary distribution, but got the "Illegal instruction" error at startup. So I tried the rm spkg/installed/mpir* spkg/installed/atlas* make as given in the FAQ, but it still didn't work- I still got the "illegal instruction". So I tried installing from source. I got the "illegal instruction" error again, tried rm spkg/installed/mpir* spkg/installed/atlas* make and again got "illegal instruction." So then I thought, I'll just reinstall the 3.05 from Ubuntu's package manager and install the patch. I deleted (well, I think) all of the new sage stuff I installed, and reinstalled 3.05. But now when I type "sage" into the terminal I get "/usr/local/bin/sage: No such file or directory". I have no idea where to go from here. I'm using an 8 year old HP with a Pentium 4 CPU, it's 32 bit i686 with Ubuntu 9.04. I'm just going to give up, because doing all this took me many hours, and I had to learn/try a lot of stuff about working with the command line that I've never done before. The installation directions are confusing to someone who doesn't know very much about computers. I mean, I got Linux installed on my own, but I probably represent the lower bound in computer knowledge of Linux users. I'm getting a new computer in 4 months, so I'll just try again then. Thanks for your help though. On Nov 4, 9:16 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > Dan Drake wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 at 04:07PM -0800, Simon King wrote: > >> Hi Dan! > > >> On 5 Nov., 00:15, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > >> ... > >>> There's a space between "eigenvalues" and "()". Python (and hence Sage) > >>> gets confused by that. Use A.eigenvalues() with no spaces. > >> No, that's not true. On sage.math, it works with the additional space. > >> sage: A = matrix([[0, 4], [-1, 0]]) > >> sage: A.eigenvalues () > >> [-2*I, 2*I] > > >> So, probably it is really just the vintage sage 3.0.5 > > > Wow, you're right. I suppose it is a problem with 3.0.5. Are there any > > plans to update the Debian package? > > Yes, sort of. See the thread on a PPA package for Sage on sage-devel. > > Jason > > -- > Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
