[sage-support] Re: Maple in Sage on Mac

2009-01-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Alex Raichev wrote: > > Hi all: > > I posted this question in September but still haven't been able to > resolve the issue: how do i run Maple in Sage? Here's an example > session (run on my Mac) illustrating the problem. > > Alex > >

[sage-support] Re: error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Doug Hensley wrote: > On a 2007 Windows Vista machine, HP, plenty of ram and hard drive space, I > downloaded VMware and sage. An attempt to run sage hits this instant brick > wall: > > "Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Program > Files\Sage\disk-s0

[sage-support] Re: error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread firstbase
What I think is the newest, 3.2.3. There is only one user. The files aren't read-only. But I may have lucked on a workaround. Launch VMWare first, and run it as "administrator". VMWare asks you if you would like to browse for virtual engines. Say yes, and choose the sage executable file from withi

[sage-support] Re: error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 12, 5:21 pm, "Doug Hensley" wrote: Hi Doug, > On a 2007 Windows Vista machine, HP, plenty of ram and hard drive space, I > downloaded VMware and sage. An attempt to run sage hits this instant brick > wall: > > "Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Program > Files\Sage\d

[sage-support] error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread Doug Hensley
On a 2007 Windows Vista machine, HP, plenty of ram and hard drive space, I downloaded VMware and sage. An attempt to run sage hits this instant brick wall: "Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Program Files\Sage\disk-s001.vmdk": Insufficient permission to access file. Is there a

[sage-support] Maple in Sage on Mac

2009-01-12 Thread Alex Raichev
Hi all: I posted this question in September but still haven't been able to resolve the issue: how do i run Maple in Sage? Here's an example session (run on my Mac) illustrating the problem. Alex -- | Sage Version 3.2, Release

[sage-support] Re: make check failures on devel/sage/sage/interfaces/sage0.py

2009-01-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Bill Hammond wrote: > > > This sage was built from source on a Linux system running > Debian 4.1.1-21 (current stable release). > > Another build on Ubuntu 8.04.1 tested cleanly. > > FWIW the latter system has Python 2.5, while the former has > Python 2.4. > > Que

[sage-support] make check failures on devel/sage/sage/interfaces/sage0.py

2009-01-12 Thread Bill Hammond
This sage was built from source on a Linux system running Debian 4.1.1-21 (current stable release). Another build on Ubuntu 8.04.1 tested cleanly. FWIW the latter system has Python 2.5, while the former has Python 2.4. Question: Whether or not the python version is the issue, if I install a la

[sage-support] Re: some basics..?

2009-01-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Vas wrote: > > hello all, > > I have been an EPD user on OS X and decided to give it a try for Sage. > However on the first place i encountered some problems and i was > wondering if somebody could give a hand... > > 1. How can somebody start an ipython session in

[sage-support] some basics..?

2009-01-12 Thread Vas
hello all, I have been an EPD user on OS X and decided to give it a try for Sage. However on the first place i encountered some problems and i was wondering if somebody could give a hand... 1. How can somebody start an ipython session in the terminal. After i uninstalled EPD asking for ipython i

[sage-support] Re: Pb with libpng on Mac OS (10.5 and 10.4) for tkinter installation

2009-01-12 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 12, 5:56 am, sonnen wrote: Hi Eric, > Tkinter is not available on the binary distribution of Sage for Mac OS > 10.5 (Intel). > As I wanted to use the TkAgg backend for matplotib I compiled Sage > from the source. However then again import Tkinter failed (even though > tk8.4 is installed

[sage-support] Pb with libpng on Mac OS (10.5 and 10.4) for tkinter installation

2009-01-12 Thread sonnen
Tkinter is not available on the binary distribution of Sage for Mac OS 10.5 (Intel). As I wanted to use the TkAgg backend for matplotib I compiled Sage from the source. However then again import Tkinter failed (even though tk8.4 is installed as a framework). I noticed that _tkinter.so was compiled

[sage-support] Re: problem running combinatorial functions

2009-01-12 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 8, 11:40 am, mabshoff wrote: > On Jan 8, 9:49 am, davidp wrote: > > > My set-up: > > Hi Dave, > > > Linux Fedora 9, 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 > > Thinkpad X40 > > shell = bash  (with pretty minimal .bashrc and .bash_profile) > > Sage Version 3.2.2, Release Date: 2008-12-18 from a binary, not

[sage-support] Re: Illegal instruction -- python "$@"

2009-01-12 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 12, 3:26 am, protagonist wrote: > whoa, you are very quick! thanks! Well, some people spend way too much time around here :) > here are the flags: > > cat /opt/sage-3.2.2-ubuntu32bit-intel-i686-Linux/local/lib/sage- > flags.txt > cmov mmx sse sse2 pni > > cat /opt/sage-3.2.3-Debian4.0-

[sage-support] Re: Illegal instruction -- python "$@"

2009-01-12 Thread protagonist
whoa, you are very quick! thanks! here are the flags: cat /opt/sage-3.2.2-ubuntu32bit-intel-i686-Linux/local/lib/sage- flags.txt cmov mmx sse sse2 pni cat /opt/sage-3.2.3-Debian4.0-32bit-Intel-i686-Linux/local/lib/sage- flags.txt cmov mmx sse sse2 pni --~--~-~--~~~

[sage-support] Re: Illegal instruction -- python "$@"

2009-01-12 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 12, 2:48 am, protagonist wrote: > here is cpuinfo: Strange. Could you please send us the content of $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/ sage-flags.txt ? > processor      : 0 > vendor_id      : GenuineIntel > cpu family     : 15 > model          : 2 > model name     : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GH

[sage-support] Re: Illegal instruction -- python "$@"

2009-01-12 Thread protagonist
here is cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz: 3073.632 cache size : 512 KB physical id: 0 siblings : 1 core id: 0 cpu cores