I tried again, this time with the newer sage-4.3.1 - and this time it
worked!

On Jan 20, 1:29 pm, Valter <vsor...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 1) I downloaded the source code from this link
>
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.sagemath.org/src/sage-4.3.tar
>
> 2) I followed the steps indicated in the section "Steps to Install
> from Source" from
>
> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html
>
> The output from my invocation of "make" is in the install.log file I
> attached to my previous msg.
>
> 3) I don't know: I let it run during the night
>
> 4) I tried both "sage" and "./sage" (I do not remember in which
> order).
>
> Valter.
>
> On Jan 19, 1:54 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Valter Sorana <vsor...@googlemail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > I have tried to install SAGE from both binary and source and I failed - 
> > > with
> > > the problem ultimately being a complaint that " sage-ipython "$@" -i " is 
> > > an
> > > illegal instruction.
>
> > > I describe the details below and attach the install.log file (in a
> > > compressed archive form).
>
> > > Any help is appreciated.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Valter.
>
> > > 1) I downloaded the SAGE binary for my Ubuntu distribution (9.10 Karmic)
> > > running on a five-year old Dell Dimension 8300;
>
> > > 2) I extracted the archive and copied to a new directory 
> > > /usr/bin/sagemath;
>
> > > 3) I tried to run sage, but it would not start because
>
> > > "The following processor
> > > flags were on the build machine but are not on this computer:
>
> > > pni"
>
> > > 4) following some search, I found someone else had already had this 
> > > problem
> > > and William Stein in response had suggested to try ./sage -f mpir-1.2.p4; 
> > > I
> > > did that, but it did not work either, probably because the mpir package 
> > > had
> > > changed name; so I tried ./sage -f mpir-1.2.2 and that stopped with the
> > > error msg
>
> > > "checking for suitable m4... configure: error: No usable m4 in $PATH or
> > > /usr/5bin (see config.log for reasons).
> > > Failed to configure."
>
> > > 5) following someone else's suggestion in the same thread of sage-devel
> > > group, I tried "sage -b main" and "sage -ba" which ran smoothly, but did 
> > > not
> > > seem to change anything.
>
> > > 5) I decided to try my luck, delete the sage-flags.txt file anyway and try
> > > the sage command again; this is what I got:
>
> > > "r...@valter-desktop:/usr/bin/sagemath/sage-4.3-linux-Ubuntu_9.10-i686-Linux#
> > > sage
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > | Sage Version 4.3, Release Date: 2009-12-24                         |
> > > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information.        |
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > /usr/bin/sagemath/sage-4.3-linux-Ubuntu_9.10-i686-Linux/local/bin/sage-sage:
> > > line 206: 15352 Illegal instruction     sage-ipython "$@" -i
> > > "
>
> > > 6) I restarted from scratch, downloaded the source code and built it
> > > following the instructions to the letter (including installing m4 and the
> > > other prerequisite packages) and I still get the same complaint about the
> > > illegality of "sage-ipython "$@" -i"
>
> > I don't believe that.  It should be completely impossible to
> > completely install Sage from source and get that error.
>
> > (1) *Precisely* what file did you download when you write "source code"?
> > (2) What did you type to build from source?
> > (3) How long did building from source take?
> > (4) Exactly what did you type to run Sage after building from source?
> >    Can you send an exact log
>
> > William

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