Hey thanks, I took your advice, and everything is working fine now. Didn't have to use sudo for the rest of the process. Clearly i'm new to linux and didn't know that you could change file ownership like that. I was also able to get my new package installed.
-Jose On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 5:13 PM Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 at 21:45, Jose Garcia <garci...@mail.gvsu.edu> wrote: > >> Do you think I should have installed sage somewhere other than in /opt ? >> > > you can change the owner of your installation to be the “normal” user, not > root > using “chown”, > no need to reinstall it. > > > >> 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: >> >>> >>> >>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "sage-support" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "sage-support" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sage-support" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. 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