Hi, I think this email properly belongs to sage-support.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > I've used http://www.sagenb.org extensively in my AP Calculus BC > classes. I use the liveCD at just about every conference I attend. > In fact, I'm giving a presentation tomorrow with the liveCD to entice > students to sign up for a new Calculus Research Lab for next year. > > So, sorry for being dense, but I must be missing something fundamental > here when trying to install SAGE to a Linux partition for my Calculus > students. I have a LAN of HP PCs with AMD dual core 64 bit Athlons > where I have installed the Fedora 12 DVD for my AP Computer Science > classes. Silly me, I decided to download the SAGE 4.3.1 Fedora 12 > x86_64 binary and install it. Well the download went fine, the md5 > checked out and it seems to have extracted correctly to my /home > dir. > > So, I tried running SAGE in a terminal from the SAGE dir that was > created. I got a welcome message about typing notebook() to start the > GUI and then some sort of error message about not being able to run an > executable. It looks like it was in the bin/python dir when it > crashed. Anyone know what went wrong here and how to fix it? > > One thing comes to mind. The download page (Harvard?) said something > about apt-getting gfortran before running SAGE. Well, that's a Debian > command, so I tried "yum install gfortran" but Fedora didn't find it. > I was hoping that gfortran was only needed when compiling from source, > not when running the binaries.... > > Please help, > A. Jorge Garcia > http://calcpage.tripod.com -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- 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
