On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Calcpage <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: > In Ubuntu, the user passwd IS the sudo passwd!
That is *only* true for users in the admin group. > > HTH, > A. Jorge Garcia > Applied Math & CS > http://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 at >> http://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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
