Well, I guess I'll answer my own question, especially since I'm feeling rather like a moron. I Googled like crazy when what I should just have done was read the manual. D'oh.
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/inst/node8.html http://www.sagemath.org/doc/inst/node10.html Nathan On Jan 16, 9:18 pm, Nathan Carter <nathancart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been attempting to answer my own questions here by Googling > around, and I must admit that this is a highly frustrating > experience. I have rather extensive computer experience and I'm > finding a SAGE server maddening to set up. Do normal mathematicians > find this easy and I'm just being boneheaded today, or is SAGE server > setup only for the ultimate in Unix ninjas? > > For instance, the best two resources I've found are > (a) Dan's post mentioned earlier in this thread (about which I still > have unanswered questions that are keeping me from succeeding in that > direction; see earlier in this thread), and > (b) a post by Luiz here:http://markmail.org/message/aovcanxgna6alwvs > but in replies to it, William Stein throws out numerous corrections, > some of which include frightening comments about how everything will > be brought down by a malicious user if you do X instead of Y. > > If the terrain is truly this perilous, why is there not clear > documentation on how to set this up? Is this not a crucial bridge > anyone must cross if they hope to adopt SAGE for classroom use? Is it > truly the case that SAGE is as mature and well-known as it is becoming > without a tutorial on how to set it up for a class of students to > use? I'm hoping that perhaps I just haven't Googled correctly, and > someone can point me to the right doc page that I'm just not seeing. > > Nathan > > On Jan 14, 10:40 am, Nathan Carter <nathancart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you for the reply! > > > On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:20 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > >> 1. I had some confusion when I ran sage the first time, because it > > >> complained about permissions for creating some files. So I ran it > > >> with sudo in front, and it worked fine. Now thereafter, I can run it > > >> without sudo and it doesn't complain. So it seems the first run has > > >> to have privileges to make certain files?? > > > > No, do you remember which files it was complaining about? This should > > > not happen unless you unpack Sage as root and then run it as a non- > > > root user user. This would explain the need to run Sage with sudo once > > > and then it worked without it. > > > Unfortunately, because I'm doing this under VirtualBox and JeOS (as in > > Dan's tutorial--link below) what scrolls off the screen is gone for > > good. > > > But I should mention that when I followed Dan's directions for > > downloading SAGE, the first time I ran it, it said my processor was > > incompatible with the one on which the binary was compiled, so I > > should expect invalid instruction errors, and my only option was to > > build from sources. So I deleted that installation, downloaded the > > sources, and built them. And yes, IIRC I did the unpacking and the > > making with "sudo" in front. > > > If doing so has painted myself into a corner, then including in Dan's > > wiki page what people in my situation *should* do instead is, I think, > > essential. The processor isn't even that old, so this may impact a > > nontrivial percentage of that page's readers. Well, not *that* old; > > it's a 3.something GHz Pentium something. > > > >> 2. When I run sage start_notebook.sage it claims that nb1 cannot run > > >> the command sage (no such file or directory). I thought perhaps I > > >> had > > >> to add the sage path to that user's ~/.bashrc, but that did not fix > > >> the problem. Thus the whole "sage start_notebook.sage" fails in the > > >> end. > > > > You can invoke the notebook via ./sage -notebook, but if you post > > > start_notebook.sage or tell us what you want to do I am sure this can > > > be sorted out. > > > The start_notebook.sage is the one in Dan's wiki article, mentioned in > > the first post in this thread. Here's the link for convenience; > > the .sage file is at the bottom (linked). > > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer > > > Thanks again for any assistance available! > > > Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
