[sage-support] Status of the Mathematica interface?

2014-12-08 Thread Robert Jacobson
I'm on OS X Yosemite with Mathematica 10. I can't get Sage to talk to Mathematica, i.e. the following fails: sage: mathematica('Factor[x^2-1]') However, it fails differently depending on the version of Sage. With 5.8 I get: TypeError: Unable to start mathematica With 6.4.1 Sage appears to

Re: [sage-support] Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-08 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Dec 8, 2014, at 6:29 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > If they hit continue, does Sage work as expected? > > As far as I can tell, yes. The permissions of DOT_SAGE and the notebook are > initialized and the user is asked for a password. > > Oh, so it works? Then yes, it is safe. That really was jus

[sage-support] Re: error with help(notebook)

2014-12-08 Thread kcrisman
> I would read the notebook help but it fails: > > sage: help (notebook) > This is in fact expected. Try sage: notebook? for what you most likely want. Or, sage: import sagenb sage: help(sagenb.notebook) this is because `help` needs a Python module, not just a command. In general, the

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-08 Thread kcrisman
> > If they hit continue, does Sage work as expected? >> > > As far as I can tell, yes. The permissions of DOT_SAGE and the notebook > are initialized and the user is asked for a password. > Oh, so it works? Then yes, it is safe. That really was just to warn against the situation Ivan descri

[sage-support] Re: error with help(notebook)

2014-12-08 Thread a . barbieri009
Il giorno martedì 9 dicembre 2014 00:01:27 UTC+1, a.barb...@studenti.unibs.it ha scritto: > > I would read the notebook help but it fails: > > sage: help (notebook) > --- > AttributeErrorTraceback

[sage-support] error with help(notebook)

2014-12-08 Thread a . barbieri009
I would read the notebook help but it fails: sage: help (notebook) --- AttributeErrorTraceback (most recent call last) in () > 1 help (notebook) /home/ale/Scaricati/sage-6.3/local/lib/python2.

[sage-support] Re: Error when starting Sage 6.4.1 virtual machine

2014-12-08 Thread Volker Braun
The link suggests that your antivirus / kernel debugger / ... is at fault. Try to disable it and try again. On Monday, December 8, 2014 2:12:34 PM UTC, kcrisman wrote: > > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34542 > > --

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-08 Thread Jérôme Tremblay
> If they hit continue, does Sage work as expected? > As far as I can tell, yes. The permissions of DOT_SAGE and the notebook are initialized and the user is asked for a password. > This was implemented in http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15732 because >> Sage needs to write to some files in

[sage-support] Re: Error when starting Sage 6.4.1 virtual machine

2014-12-08 Thread kcrisman
> Hello. I am unable to start Sage on Virtualbox (version 4.3.20 r96997) > under Windows Vista. The versions of Sage that I tried are 6.3 and 6.4.1. I > get an error screen shown in attachment for v64.1. It says "Failed to load > VMMR0.r0. > > I must say I've never succeeded starting any vers