On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:22 PM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> sage -i /Users/wdj/sagefiles/fluidium-app.spkg
>
> gave
>
> (lots of lines deleted)
>
> x fluidium-spkg/.hg/store/data/spkg-install.i
The person making the spkg made it incorrectly.
Put the relevant sources in a directory of the form
package_name-version_number
then type
sage -pkg package_name-version_number
William
> Finished extraction
> sage: After decompressing the directory fluidium-app does not exist
> This means that the corresponding .spkg needs to be downloaded
> again.
> http://www.sagemath.org//packages/optional/fluidium-app.spkg -->
> fluidium-app.spkg
> [ ]
> http://www.sagemath.org//packages/standard/fluidium-app.spkg -->
> fluidium-app.spkg
> [ ]
> http://www.sagemath.org//packages/experimental/fluidium-app.spkg -->
> fluidium-app.spkg
> [ ]
> http://www.sagemath.org//packages/archive/fluidium-app.spkg -->
> fluidium-app.spkg
> [ ]
> **********************************************************************
> * Unable to download fluidium-app
> * Please see http://www.sagemath.org//packages for a list of valid
> * packages or check the package name.
> **********************************************************************
> /Users/wdj/sagefiles/sage-4.3.2.alpha0/spkg/build
> bunzip2: Can't open input file fluidium-app.spkg: No such file or directory.
> tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'fluidium-app.spkg': No
> such file or directory
> Second download resulted in a corrupted package.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:27 PM, David Joyner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The issue is that the Sage window is mixed up with all the other browser
>>>>> windows, with irrelevant menu items, doesn't have its own icon in the
>>>>> dock, and the Sage session doesn't stop when the window is closed. Now
>>>>> there are several advantages to this from a remote users perspective, but
>>>>> in some ways it's not as "nice" as a native app (and how much you find
>>>>> that annoying is a matter of personal preference). Separate instances of
>>>>> Firefox can be started up with their own user profiles--perhaps the same
>>>>> can be done with Safari. (Well, it obviously can, see Fluid--thought
>>>>> that's not open source.)
>>>>
>>>> I have many of the same concerns, but as I mentioned in an email a few
>>>> weeks ago [1], Fluid is now open source (apache license) [2] and I have an
>>>> example of what a first stab at a Fluid-based Sage.app might look like at
>>>> http://math.byu.edu/~gvol/files/fluidium-app.spkg
>>>
>>> Can you describe how a mac user should try this out?
>>> I guess, install using sage -i, but then what happens?
>>
>> Once it's done installing, it should open up the folder (namely $SAGE_ROOT)
>> containing the application (called Sage.app). You should then be able to
>> move it, run it, etc. When you first start it up, it will take a while
>> before the server starts, but eventually it should open a browser window,
>> and away you go.
>>
>> -Ivan
>>
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