Thanks, this is definitely simpler and it worked, but only about half of the packages I use are included. How would I add the other ones? I think these days diskspace isn't much of an issue, it would be nice if there are similar commands to install all accepted packages.
On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 11:46:33 AM UTC-7, John Cremona wrote: > > I just do "sage -i gap_packages" (and "sage -i database_gap") which sounds > a lot simpler if it includes the packages you need. > > On 10 September 2016 at 18:36, multiscalar <multi...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I just built sage-7.3 under Centos7. Everything seems to have worked well >> : >> sage comes up fine and a few simple calculations work. The gap part on >> its won >> also comes up and works with simple tests, but there are no packages >> included. >> >> I'm now trying to add all the gap packages to the gap component. I tried >> to >> follow the steps in : >> >> https://wiki.sagemath.org/InstallingGapPackages >> >> The gap version in sage-7.3 is 4r8p3 which is one version older than the >> latest gap. >> To play it safe I downloaded the version that matches sage and expanded >> it in a temporary >> directory. I then started sage shell : >> >> sage -sh >> >> and copied the contents of the "pkg" subdirectory from the temporary area >> to the sage >> area (sage/local/gap/latest/pkg/....). I built a couple of the packages >> and that worked >> fine. I then exited the sage shell. >> >> Following the instructions I then called sage and typed : >> >> gap_reset_workspace() >> >> I got a "WARNING : this should never happen" and it seems that sage got >> stuck somewhere. >> Also calling the gap on its own shows that the package installation >> didn't work. >> >> I think this shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I'm out of ideas. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-support...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-s...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
