> I have sage running now on my windows-based laptop, but not without some > difficulty. Even so, it was faster than my internet download attempts > earlier. Here are a few comments. The disk includes a program called 7zip > used to unpack the file sage-vmware-2.10.7z. My first attempts to do this > failed even though I had installed (successfully) 7zip and it was listed in > my program files. Windows still couldn't find it. Finally I clicked on 7zip > itself and then 7zip couldn't find sage-vmware-2.10.7z even though it was > sitting on my desktop.
This sounds a lot like the one and only time I tried to use Windows Vista- it was pretending to do one thing, and really doing another! A very undesirable feature in an operating system... > I finally figured out how to get 7zip to unzip > sage-vmware and that produced a folder with jillions files.The instructions > in the readme file (included below) say to click on sage.vmx. This file is > NOT in the folder. So I clicked on every folder until I finally found the > one that works. It is called simply sage (Vmware configuration file) in my > machine. There is no ,vmx extension on the file name. I recall that this > fooled William when he was installing sage on my office pc. You might want > to change the instructions in the readme file. Is Windows hiding filename extensions? The fact that it said (Vmware configuration file) seems to indicate that the extension was there, but Windows wasn't showing it to you... > Another question: To use the notebook feature I need to copy an address > into Firefox. I can't figure out how to copy this address, so I end up > typing it in. Is there a better way? I can't answer this one... > But now everything seems fine. By the way how to I download upgrades when > they become available. Do I have to download the whole package again? My guess is that because of the following issue, you can't upgrade a vmware installation of Sage yet: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1193 I hope I'm wrong... > <SNIP> > > 1. Download sage-vmware-2.10.7z > 2. Extract it anywhere you want using 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org): > (This will .take about 15 minutes > despite anything Windows tells you. Do *not* stop the > extract halfway through and think SAGE will still work.) > 3. Make sure you have installed the free VMware program: > http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ > 4. Double click on sage.vmx in the sage-vmware-2.10 > directory to run SAGE. -- Robert L. Miller http://www.rlmiller.org/ Department of Mathematics University of Washington, Seattle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
