That's a great thought. The 10.4 binaries are available, and what's more, the specify that they were compiled on a G4. I will let you know how that goes.
I am at 1.5GHz / 1.25 Gb, so I would love to avoid compiling myself. I realize the days are numbered for this machine -- Power stopped being supported by mac as of OS 10.6, and every day I find more and more software that is Intel only. Thanks for the response. On Oct 16, 6:42 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 16, 5:17 am, GC <geoffrey.calk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to get Sage up and running for the first time, and I'm > > encountering an error (see below). > > > I installed sage by drag-and-drop onto my hard drive, and double > > clicked the sage executable to run it. Looking through old postings > > to this group, it seems this error is caused by a mismatch in version > > -- but it seems like the version of the binaries I have is perfectly > > right. Does anyone have experience with this? > > > PowerBook G4 (PowerPC) > > Mac OS X 10.5.8 > > Sage 4.5.2 > > Install source: sage-4.5.2-OSX-32bit-10.5-PowerMacintosh-Darwin.dmg > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | Sage Version 4.5.2, Release Date: 2010-08-05 | > > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > /Applications/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 206: 6786 Illegal > > instruction sage-ipython "$@" -i > > logout > > Wow, that is pretty bad. I wonder if the person who made this binary > had a G5, not a G4? You should try a 10.4 PPC binary, if there is > one - they *should* be forward-compatible. See "NOTE: the OS X 10.4 > binary works fine on OS X 10.5.", and note that it's a more recent > version of Sage than the 10.5 one. > > It's also conceivable that this binary had a problem. But what? > > Next, luckily, it's really easy to compile Sage on Mac. Your computer > could take a while with that, though - what is your processor speed > and memory? > > Finally, if you just want to try out Sage, I highly recommend one of > the public notebook servers, such as sagenb.org, just to see what it > can do. > > Let us know if you have more troubles! Thanks for the feedback - if > we get another report like this, maybe we'll have to remove that > binary. > > - kcrisman -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
