On Jan 27, 2008 5:09 AM, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > SAGE Version 2.8.5, Release Date: 2007-09-21 > > > > That is too old for the 3d graphics. Try "sage -upgrade" to > > get the latest. > > i did that last week! i guess something went wrong (it took a VERY > long time btw).
Upgrading with "sage -upgrade" can take arbitrarily long, since it builds all upgraded components from source. That particular upgrade, in particular, involved changing the font encoding in Python (from UCS2 to UCS4, for better support of system-wide Python libraries), which entailed rebuilding a lot of Sage packages. > Besides, my sage directory contains a file "sage. > 2.9.1.txt" It was a mistake that we didn't remove that. > and also "history.txt" which mentions sage 2.10...??? Yes, becuse you upgraded to 2.10. Try typing version() at the sage prompt. > is there anything wrong with brutally deleting my sage folder and > downloading the latest ubuntu binaries ? No. > (apart from the need to > download my favorite packages again -- there are only two i think). > Surely this beats having to wait 2 hours to recompile. Yep. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
