On 21 May 2009, at 12:41, Jaap Spies wrote: > Kevin Horton wrote: >> I'm hoping someone can suggest a way to remove an optional spkg, >> specifically the scitools++ package. > > I only see scitools++ in experimental! Experimental packages are > dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, stay away :)!
I was trying to run some of the examples in doc/live/numerical_sage/ plotting.html. I made the assumption that it someone had taken the time to actually write some nice docs, with examples, that things must be working OK. Bad assumption. Now that I know there is no easy way to back out of spkg installs, I will resort to tarring up my sage installation before doing any irreversible process. > >> It looks like the scitools++ package may not be compatible with the >> current numpy and matplotlib packages, and I want to remove it and >> try >> scitools-.4 instead. Is there a way to do this without blowing up >> and >> rebuilding my whole sage-4.0.alpha0? > > From the spkg-install: > cd src > sage -python setup.py install > cd .. > cp patches/scitools.cfg $SAGE_LOCAL/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ > scitools/ > > I think your best bet is: > > ./sage -sh > cd local/lib/python2.5/site-packages > rm -rf scitools > exit > rm spkg/installed/scitools++ Thanks for the suggestion. Now that sage-4.-.rc0 has dropped, I am building a new sage. I will start over with that one. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
