On Apr 16, 6:27 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM, terry-s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ok, I've tried out the instructions. > > > [1] On the desktop, the binary file downloaded and expanded ok, but I > > get (different from before) error messages when I run ./sage > > [screenful reproduced below]. > > That just means the binary is for a much older machine than yours. > You can either try a different linux binary, or wait for a Mandriva binary.
--- Well if the binaries are for a restricted range of machines, then it would be helpful, if the webpages or documentation would actually say just what machines the binaries are for. > > [2] On the laptop, there is no longer enough room even to expand the > > binary file, because of the 400MB debris left by the failed attempt to > > compile from source. If I could only know what it has installed on to > > the disk, I would like to remove it. (The failed compile attempt was > > made in a branch directory off 'home'. The total extra disk > > utilization after the compile attempt was about 800 MB more than at > > the start. About 400MB of that was in the subdirectory where the > > compile was done. I've now deleted that. But there remains an extra > > 400MB somewhere unidentified. Any ideas on where to look would be > > appreciated.) > > Sage is 100% local. It *does not* install any files anywhere else > on your hard drive unless you type "make install", and even then > the install only happens at the very end. In other words, just delete > the directory where you tried to do the build, and it will be as > if you had never done anything. Nice, eh? "As if I had never done anything". Unfortunately that is not true, on the evidence of the state of my machine. Terry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
