Dear Alain,
Thanks for your support request. Is it possible that you somehow have
"macaulay" selected in the dropdown menu at the top of the worksheet,
rather than "sage"? This seems the most likely thing. Good luck,
and please report back. You may also want to open up just a blank
worksheet, to see if the same behavior occurs.
- kcrisman
On Jul 23, 10:53 am, Alain Schremmer
<schremmer.al...@freemathtexts.org> wrote:
> (1) This newbee just installed Sage on Mac PPC OS X 10.4.11,
> apparently successfully.
>
> (2) I was able to start a notebook.
>
> (3) I then opened the tutorial introduction and typed 2+2 in my
> notebook and clicked on evaluate but got a RuntimeError instead of 4
>
> (4) After I clicked to get the traceback I got what is below.
>
> (5) Not only am I a newbee, I am totally computer code illiterate
> (All I can do is write some mathematics in LaTeX) and the traceback
> leaves me completely stumped.
>
> Embarrassed regards
> --schremmer
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "_sage_input_3.py", line 9, in <module>
> File "", line 1, in <module>
>
> File "/Applications/COMPUTING/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> packages/sagenb-0.7.5.3-py2.6.egg/sagenb/misc/support.py", line 473,
> in syseval
> return system.eval(cmd, sage_globals, locals = sage_globals)
> File "/Applications/COMPUTING/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> packages/sage/interfaces/macaulay2.py", line 211, in eval
> ans = Expect.eval(self, code, strip=strip, **kwds).strip('\n')
> File "/Applications/COMPUTING/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py", line 983, in eval
> return '\n'.join([self._eval_line(L, **kwds) for L in code.split
> ('\n') if L != ''])
> File "/Applications/COMPUTING/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py", line 637, in _eval_line
> self._start()
> File "/Applications/COMPUTING/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
> packages/sage/interfaces/expect.py", line 458, in _start
> self.__name, cmd, self._install_hints())
> RuntimeError: Unable to start macaulay2 because the command 'M2 --no-
> debug --no-readline --silent ' failed.
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