Hi Michael, The /./ stays in the same folder. It does not hurt, but it is unecessary:
/home/mike/sage-5.12/sage is equivalent to what you have. . means same folder .. means parent folder ~ means home folder Regards, Jan On 31 October 2013 08:05, michael kaepernik <alienfetusea...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Monday, October 14, 2013 11:27:24 AM UTC-4, Jan Groenewald wrote: > >> 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=$HOME/sage/sage-5.11-**linux-32bit-ubuntu_13.04-i686-**Linux/sage" >> >> ~/.bashrc >> >> And read it into the current terminal with: >> >> source ~/.bashrc >> >> Regards, >> Jan >> >> >> >> >> On 14 October 2013 16:48, michael kaepernik <alienfe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> sage 5.11 pre-compiled binary was downloaded onto ubuntu 13.04 but >>> when the command 'sage' is entered in /home/kappy the error ~$ 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...@**googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to sage-s...@googlegroups.com. >>> >>> Visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/sage-support<http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support> >>> . >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>> . >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> .~. >> /V\ Jan Groenewald >> /( )\ www.aims.ac.za >> ^^-^^ >> > > > actually, nm. i figured it out. now i can call up sage in any directory > using just the command sage. if anyone else was not sure how this worked, > this is what i did > > alias sage= /home/mike/sage-5.12/./sage > > the alias command assigns an alias, here i decided to use sage, or sets it > rather to the command that i am abreviating. that is instead of typing > > /home/mike/sage-5.12/./sage > > after defining 'sage' with the alias, now my bash sees them as equivalent. > forest through the trees. thanks all > > -- > 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.
