[sage-support] Re: sage on disk

2008-01-24 Thread Robert Miller 

 I have sage running now on my windows-based laptop, but not without some
 difficulty.  Even so, it was faster than my internet download attempts
 earlier.  Here are a few comments.  The disk includes a program called 7zip
 used to unpack the file sage-vmware-2.10.7z.  My first attempts to do this
 failed even though I had installed (successfully) 7zip and it was listed in
 my program files. Windows still couldn't find it.  Finally I clicked on 7zip
 itself and then 7zip couldn't find sage-vmware-2.10.7z even though it was
 sitting on my desktop.

This sounds a lot like the one and only time I tried to use Windows
Vista- it was pretending to do one thing, and really doing another! A
very undesirable feature in an operating system...

 I finally figured out how to get 7zip to unzip
 sage-vmware and that produced a folder with jillions files.The instructions
 in the readme file (included below) say to click on sage.vmx.  This file is
 NOT in the folder.  So I clicked on every folder until I finally found the
 one that works.   It is called simply sage (Vmware configuration file) in my
 machine.  There is no ,vmx extension on the file name.  I recall that this
 fooled William when he was installing sage on my office pc.  You might want
 to change the instructions in the readme file.

Is Windows hiding filename extensions? The fact that it said (Vmware
configuration file) seems to indicate that the extension was there,
but Windows wasn't showing it to you...

  Another question: To use the notebook feature I need to copy an address
 into Firefox.  I can't figure out how to copy this address, so I end up
 typing it in.  Is there a better way?

I can't answer this one...

 But now everything seems fine.  By the way how to I download upgrades when
 they become available.  Do I have to download the whole package again?

My guess is that because of the following issue, you can't upgrade a
vmware installation of Sage yet:

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1193

I hope I'm wrong...

   SNIP

 1. Download sage-vmware-2.10.7z
 2. Extract it anywhere you want using 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org):
(This will .take about 15 minutes
despite anything Windows tells you.  Do *not* stop the
extract halfway through and think SAGE will still work.)
 3. Make sure you have installed the free VMware program:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
 4. Double click on sage.vmx in the sage-vmware-2.10
directory to run SAGE.



-- 
Robert L. Miller
http://www.rlmiller.org/
Department of Mathematics
University of Washington, Seattle

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[sage-support] Re: sage on disk

2008-01-24 Thread Ted Kosan 

William wrote:

  I finally figured out how to get 7zip to unzip
  sage-vmware and that produced a folder with jillions files.The instructions
  in the readme file (included below) say to click on sage.vmx.  This file is
  NOT in the folder.  So I clicked on every folder until I finally found the
  one that works.   It is called simply sage (Vmware configuration file) in my
  machine.  There is no ,vmx extension on the file name.  I recall that this
  fooled William when he was installing sage on my office pc.  You might want
  to change the instructions in the readme file.

 Is Windows hiding filename extensions? The fact that it said (Vmware
 configuration file) seems to indicate that the extension was there,
 but Windows wasn't showing it to you...

My thought here is to rename sage.vmx to sage_vmx.vmx. Windows hides
file extensions by default and so 95% of Windows users are going to
have difficulties locating the vmx file.

Ted

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[sage-support] Re: sage on disk

2008-01-24 Thread William Stein 

On Jan 24, 2008 10:05 AM, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 William wrote:

   I finally figured out how to get 7zip to unzip
   sage-vmware and that produced a folder with jillions files.The 
   instructions
   in the readme file (included below) say to click on sage.vmx.  This file 
   is
   NOT in the folder.  So I clicked on every folder until I finally found the
   one that works.   It is called simply sage (Vmware configuration file) in 
   my
   machine.  There is no ,vmx extension on the file name.  I recall that this
   fooled William when he was installing sage on my office pc.  You might 
   want
   to change the instructions in the readme file.
 
  Is Windows hiding filename extensions? The fact that it said (Vmware
  configuration file) seems to indicate that the extension was there,
  but Windows wasn't showing it to you...

 My thought here is to rename sage.vmx to sage_vmx.vmx. Windows hides
 file extensions by default and so 95% of Windows users are going to
 have difficulties locating the vmx file.


Wow, that's an extremely good idea.  I'm testing it right now, and will do it if
it works.  Thanks!
[...] Yep it works fine.

William

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