[sage-devel] Trouble finding the normalizer of a subgroup

2008-04-23 Thread Hy Ginsberg
Hi All, Perhaps someone can help me figure this out. I am trying to create an elementary abelian subgroup of a symmetric group and then look at its normalizer. Here's what doesn't work: s6 = SymmetricGroup(6) c1 = s6([(1,2)]) c2 = s6([(3,4)]) c3 = s6([(5,6)]) e8 = s6.subg

[sage-devel] GAP packages install error

2008-01-30 Thread Hy Ginsberg
Hi all, I am a brand-newbie. I tried to install the GAP packages and got an error. Sage told me to email this group, so here I am... I am running Xubuntu ("Feisty") on an HP-Compaq nc4010, in case that matters. The tail end of the error follows. Thanks in advance for any help. H