Thanks for all your help. It looks like its working, just building now. Dieter
On Jul 1, 8:19 pm, Calcpage <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > In Ubuntu, the user passwd IS the sudo passwd! > > HTH, > A. Jorge Garcia > Applied Math & CShttp://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com > Sent from my iPod > > On Jul 1, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:32:47 -0700 > > William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Dieter <dieter.fishb...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> It looks like I have Ubuntu v. 8.04.4 LTS. > > >>> Is there a binary version available that would be compatible? > > >> No. > > >>> Unfortunatley, I am using a computer where I don't have > >>> administrative access, so I cannot upgrade the system or install > >>> from source, since this would require me to have the sudo password. > > >> Installing from source does *not* require the sudo password, so long > >> as the following commands are installed on the system: > > >> gcc, g++, make, m4 > > >> Just get sage-4.4.4.tar, extract it, and type "make". > > > You also need gfortran. Today, I updated the instructions on the > > Ubuntu > > wiki for this after seeing the exact same message on a colleague's > > laptop. > > >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SAGE > > > Cheers, > > Burcin > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- 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
