On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 at 02:11PM -0700, mathgeek wrote: >> So I just got the Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix and installed sage through >> the terminal by typing Sage and then it asked me if I wanted to >> install... So I said yes and it did... Now I am having a lot of >> difficulties with it. When I try to run a test, all I get is: >> >> sage: -testall >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> NameError Traceback (most recent call >> last) >> >> /home/mathgeek/<ipython console> in <module>() >> >> NameError: name 'testall' is not defined > > Did you install Sage through apt or Synaptic? If so, you should know > that the version of Sage available in Ubuntu does not pass doctests, so > it's somewhat pointless to even run the tests. > > The way that tests are normally run is by going to the root directory of > the Sage installation and running "make test" or "make testlong". In the > packaged version of Sage that you installed, however, there probably is > no such directory. > >> And when I try to use the plot functions, it seems that jsMath is not >> installed or something with that is messed up. > > This is a different problem and I'm not sure what to do about this. > There might be a jsmath package you can install to help, although > perhaps that got pulled in by Sage's dependencies.
Also, plotting in no way uses jsmath. Please provide much more precise error messages and logs, if possible. Thanks! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
