Hi John,
Great. Did you need ONLY the first command? Is Sage starting
and running OK? Is your launcher icon working?
The postinst script of the debian/ubuntu package runs configure:
echo "Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path
/usr/lib/sagemath)"
rm -rf /usr/lib/s
Hi Jan,
It worked like a charm!
jjs@jjs-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure sagemath-upstream-binary
[sudo] password for jjs:
Setting up sagemath-upstream-binary (5.4) ...
Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path /usr/lib/sagemath)
Running Sage once as root to set paths
Hi John,
On 14 November 2012 01:01, JJS137 wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> Thanks for the prompt response. The output to your command was:
>
> jjs@jjs-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sagemath-upstream-binary
> [sudo] password for jjs:
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: sagemath-upstream-binary is broken or not
>
Hi Jan,
Thanks for the prompt response. The output to your command was:
jjs@jjs-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sagemath-upstream-binary
[sudo] password for jjs:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: sagemath-upstream-binary is broken or not fully
installed
jjs@jjs-laptop:~$
Cheers,
John
On Wednesday,
Hi John,
Thanks for the report. I have not seen this error before, but 5.4 is only
out for a day or two in the Ubuntu PPA now.
Would you mind running this command and sending the output back here?
sudo dpkg-reconfigure sagemath-upstream-binary
I'd like to see whether a terminal produces the sam
The Sage 5.4 installation on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using Update Manager fails with
the following messages:
installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%%
(Reading database ... 10%%
(Reading database ... 15%%
(Reading database ... 20%%
(Reading database ... 25%%
(Reading dat
