Do you think I should have installed sage somewhere other than in /opt ?

Would it have been best to install it in my home directory?

Any advice is appreciated.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:37 PM Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 at 21:05, Jose Garcia <garci...@mail.gvsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Great news guys, turns out I just forgot to purge the SageMath
>> Installation from when i used apt. So now my sage installation recognizes
>> the "--package" option as well as the "-i" option for installing sagemath
>> packages.
>>
>> However now I have this issue related to what appears to be writing
>> right? What do you all think i should do?
>>
>> sudo sage -i conjecturing
>>
>
> sudo? why? Sage goes out of its way to prevent one from doing
> installations under root,
> and for a good reason.
>
> make build/make/Makefile --stop
>> make[1]: Entering directory '/opt/SageMath'
>> rm -f config.log
>> mkdir -p logs/pkgs
>> ln -s logs/pkgs/config.log config.log
>> running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure --no-create
>> --no-recursion
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
>> checking for gawk... no
>> checking for mawk... mawk
>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>> checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
>> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
>> yes
>> checking for root user... yes
>> configure: error: You cannot build Sage as root, switch to an
>> unpriviledged user
>> If you would like to try to build Sage anyway (to help porting),
>> export the variable 'SAGE_PORT' to something non-empty.
>> Makefile:39: recipe for target 'build/make/Makefile' failed
>> make[1]: *** [build/make/Makefile] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/SageMath'
>> Makefile:31: recipe for target 'all-toolchain' failed
>> make: *** [all-toolchain] Error 2
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:05 AM Antonio Rojas <nqn7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You are still running sage from the debian repo. You need to run ./sage
>>> from the dir where you installed the sage binary (or add such dir to your
>>> PATH)
>>>
>>> El domingo, 31 de marzo de 2019, 15:29:04 (UTC+2), Jose Garcia escribió:
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the response. I tried installing Sage from Binary and it
>>>> was successful.
>>>>
>>>> However, i still get error messages when trying to run the commands to
>>>> install this optional package i keep talking about.
>>>>
>>>> sage --package fix-checksum conjecturing
>>>> sage-run received unknown option: --package
>>>> usage: sage [options]
>>>> Try 'sage -h' for more information.
>>>>
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