On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:09:00 -0800 (PST), Eugene Goldberg <omegat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got two computers with archlinux (i686 and x86_64 versions) and > on both machines there is same problem installing sage: > > $make > .... > File "/home/ajunta/Binary/sage-4.3-linux-Ubuntu_9.10-x86_64-Linux/ > local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/interfaces/gap.py", line 362, > in _start > raise RuntimeError, msg > RuntimeError: Unable to start gap > > could you please advice what is wrong with it? >
Hi, It looks like you're trying to install from the binaries for Ubuntu, is that correct? I have never tried that, but I wouldn't be suprised if it didn't work, since archlinux and ubuntu aren't really that close. One of these days I will find out how to make binaries and I'll produce 32 and 64 bit binaries for archlinux. Until then, I suggest you download the source code for Sage and build it yourself. It is a bit on the long side (a few hours), but it should work pretty well. After you download sage-4.3.tar, untar it and look at the README.txt file. It's not quite up to date, but it's pretty good. In particular, Arch Linux is listed as unsupported, but several people have been building Sage on it for a while and it works fine. Before you start the build, make sure you have the prerequisites -- to those listed in README.txt, you have to add gcc-fortran. You also need to set the environment variables SAGE_FORTRAN and SAGE_FORTRAN_LIB as described in README.txt. Good luck, and let us know if you have any more problems. PS: After writing the above, I noticed that Sage 4.3 is actually packaged in AUR, both as source (sage-mathematics) and as binary (sage-mathematics-bin). So that could be another option. (But I still think that the easiest and most robust way is to build from source.) Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- 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
