OK, thanks. I've just added
alias sage="/Applications/SageMath-8.5.app/sage"
to .bash_profile, and everything is working smoothly.
Sorry that this turned out to be not a sage question but a pseudo-Unix
question.
On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 12:41:55 PM UTC+3, Chris Brav wrote:
>
> Two related problems.
>
> 1) In finder, the sage icon is labeled SageMath-8.5. I thought I could
> change it to just Sage, to be less awkward, but that breaks it for some
> reason, causing a complaint that I'm trying to open an uninstalled tarball.
> (I don't seem to have any such tarball.)
>
> 2) When I run 'ln -s /Applications/SageMath-8.5.app/sage
> /usr/local/bin/sage', it does create a file 'sage' in /usr/local/bin. So
> far so good. But then running 'sage' in the terminal returns
>
> FSPathMakeRef(/Applications/Sage.app/Contents/Resources/sage/sage) failed
> with error -43.
>
>
> So somehow it wants to find Sage.app, rather than SageMath-8.5.app.
>
>
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>
> On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 12:19:54 PM UTC+3, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 9:16 AM Chris Brav <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks! Now it works with macaulay2.
>> >
>> > As for ln, I was following the directions in the install directions.
>> I'll sort that out separately.
>>
>> How that "ln" was failing? If it's indeed a problem (MacOSX is very
>> much a moving target) we should update our docs.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> >
>> > On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 12:12:32 PM UTC+3, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:08 Chris Brav <chris....@gmail.com wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Unfortunately I have been unable to get sage running directly from a
>> terminal on Mac. sudo ln -s /path/to/SageMath/sage /usr/local/bin/sage
>> didn't work for me.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Why would you need "ln"?
>> >> Can't you simply start Sage in Terminal as /path/to/SageMath/sage
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> So I click on the icon and then have a choice to open either a
>> terminal or a Jupyter notebook. Once the terminal is opened, I can use it
>> to talk to Macaulay 2, but not through the Jupyter notebook.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sorry for being so helpless.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 9:19:16 PM UTC+3, Dima Pasechnik
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> How do you start Jupyter? I believe that if you start it via
>> terminal command "sage -n" then you will get exactly the same Sage
>> environment in Jupyter as you get at Sage's prompt.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:10 Chris Brav <chris....@gmail.com wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I like to use a jupyter notebook for sage, but also want to use a
>> bit of macaulay2 at the same, using the sage interface. In a sage terminal,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> macaulay2('2+2')
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> returns 4 as expected, but in a jupyter notebook I get an error,
>> the end of which reads
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> TypeError: unable to start macaulay2 because the command 'M2
>> --no-debug --no-readline --silent -e \'ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private
>> dictionary"#"InputPrompt"} = lineno -> "_EGAS_ :
>> ";ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private dictionary"#"InputContinuationPrompt"} =
>> lineno -> "_EGAS_ : ";printWidth = 0;lineNumber = 10^9;\'' failed: The
>> command was not found or was not executable: M2.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Any advice? Presumably I have to tell jupyter how see macaulay2...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
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