Hi Michael, Run this command (cut and paste it all on one line) to set an alias permanently pointing at the rigth path:
echo "alias sage=$HOME/sage/sage-5.11-linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-Linux/sage" >> ~/.bashrc And read it into the current terminal with: source ~/.bashrc Regards, Jan On 14 October 2013 16:48, michael kaepernik <alienfetusea...@gmail.com>wrote: > sage 5.11 pre-compiled binary was downloaded onto ubuntu 13.04 but when > the command 'sage' is entered in /home/kappy the error ~$ sage > No command 'sage' found, did you mean: > Command 'page' from package 'tcllib' (universe) > Command 'save' from package 'atfs' (universe) > Command 'osage' from package 'graphviz' (main) > sage: command not found > > when i change directory to /home/sage and the command 'sage' is entered > the error > ~/sage$ sage > No command 'sage' found, did you mean: > Command 'page' from package 'tcllib' (universe) > Command 'save' from package 'atfs' (universe) > Command 'osage' from package 'graphviz' (main)~/sage$ ls > sage-5.11-linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-Linux > sage-5.11-linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-Linux.tar.lzma > sage: command not found > mike@mike-1001PX:~/sage$ > > is returned. this is the contents of the directories: > ~/sage$ ls > sage-5.11-linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-Linux > sage-5.11-linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-Linux.tar.lzma > > and; > > :~/sage/sage-5.11-linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-Linux$ ls > COPYING.txt data devel local Makefile README.txt sage spkg > VERSION.txt > > so it seems all of the files were extracted from the tarball (?). any > suggestions would help > -thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
