I just do "sage -i gap_packages" (and "sage -i database_gap") which sounds a lot simpler if it includes the packages you need.
On 10 September 2016 at 18:36, multiscalar <multisca...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just built sage-7.3 under Centos7. Everything seems to have worked well : > sage comes up fine and a few simple calculations work. The gap part on its > won > also comes up and works with simple tests, but there are no packages > included. > > I'm now trying to add all the gap packages to the gap component. I tried to > follow the steps in : > > https://wiki.sagemath.org/InstallingGapPackages > > The gap version in sage-7.3 is 4r8p3 which is one version older than the > latest gap. > To play it safe I downloaded the version that matches sage and expanded it > in a temporary > directory. I then started sage shell : > > sage -sh > > and copied the contents of the "pkg" subdirectory from the temporary area > to the sage > area (sage/local/gap/latest/pkg/....). I built a couple of the packages > and that worked > fine. I then exited the sage shell. > > Following the instructions I then called sage and typed : > > gap_reset_workspace() > > I got a "WARNING : this should never happen" and it seems that sage got > stuck somewhere. > Also calling the gap on its own shows that the package installation didn't > work. > > I think this shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I'm out of ideas. > > Thanks for your help. > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
