On Aug 7, 1:06 am, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > Hi Victor, > > On 6 Aug., 14:17, VictorMiller <victorsmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Georg, Thanks. My situation is a bit unique (as William fully > > understands). Copying the sage source from sagemath.org is not an > > option that I have. Our sysadmins get the source and then build it > > and make a built directory available to us on the system. I have to > > proceed from there. > > I don't know *how* special your situation is. But certainly you do not > need to be "root" in order to build and execute Sage. > Just download the tarball in your favourite directoory in your home > tree (where you have write permissions), say, ~/foo/bar/, and build > sage there, hence: > - go to ~/foo/bar/sage-4... (whatever version it is), > - type "make" > - go for lunch
Right. > - after lunch, provided sage is built, edit the file "sage" in this > folder. What you need to do is to provide an appropriate value for > SAGE_ROOT, which here is ~/foo/bar/sage-4... I'm not sure you need to do this. At least, I never have. > - Then, still being in this directory, you can start sage by ./sage Another option: I have a fixed nonexistent directory (say, ~/foo/bar/ sage/) in my $PATH, and after building sage in ~/foo/bar/ sage-4.1.1.rc1-alpha35/ or whatever, I create a symlink from there to ~/foo/bar/sage/. Then when I type "sage" from any directory, it runs this one. I keep a few others in ~/foo/bar/sage-3.4.1/, etc., in case I want to run an older version for some reason, and in this case, I just specify the full path. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
