Re: [sage-support] Sage always crashes

2016-09-02 Thread John Cremona
On 2 September 2016 at 07:17, Thierry Dumont wrote: > Le 01/09/2016 à 21:29, Pierre-Yves Bienvenu a écrit : > > Hi, I'm trying to use Sage 7.3 on Ubuntu. I've downloaded the archive, > > used archive manager to extract it and got a directory SageMath. Inside > > I double click the sage executabl

Re: [sage-support] Sage always crashes

2016-09-02 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 8:31:55 AM UTC, John Cremona wrote: > > > > On 2 September 2016 at 07:17, Thierry Dumont > wrote: > >> Le 01/09/2016 à 21:29, Pierre-Yves Bienvenu a écrit : >> > Hi, I'm trying to use Sage 7.3 on Ubuntu. I've downloaded the archive, >> > used archive manager to ex

Re: [sage-support] Sage always crashes

2016-09-02 Thread John Cremona
Since I had never tried downloading and running a binary, I thought I would. For a laptop running ubuntu 14.04 I looked at the UK mirror and found no 7.3 binary so I downloaded the 7.2 one (there was 7.3 for ubuntu 12.04 but not 14.04 or later). Using the command-line I unpacked the tarball (tar

[sage-support] Re: Sage always crashes

2016-09-02 Thread leif
John Cremona wrote: > Since I had never tried downloading and running a binary, I thought I > would. For a laptop running ubuntu 14.04 I looked at the UK mirror and > found no 7.3 binary so I downloaded the 7.2 one (there was 7.3 for > ubuntu 12.04 but not 14.04 or later). 32-bit?!? (For Sag

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage always crashes

2016-09-02 Thread John Cremona
On 2 September 2016 at 16:36, leif wrote: > John Cremona wrote: > > Since I had never tried downloading and running a binary, I thought I > > would. For a laptop running ubuntu 14.04 I looked at the UK mirror and > > found no 7.3 binary so I downloaded the 7.2 one (there was 7.3 for > > ubuntu 1

[sage-support] Re: Sage always crashes

2016-09-02 Thread leif
John Cremona wrote: > On 2 September 2016 at 16:36, leif > wrote: > > John Cremona wrote: > > Since I had never tried downloading and running a binary, I thought I > > would. For a laptop running ubuntu 14.04 I looked at the UK mirror and > > found no

[sage-support] Re: tab-completion in new IPython-command line

2016-09-02 Thread John H Palmieri
I found one way to view more methods: hit Ctrl-L to clear the screen first, and/or use a larger terminal window. If your "sage:" prompt is at the very bottom of a terminal window, it will only include a few lines of methods when you hit the TAB key, but if the prompt is at the top of the window,

Re: [sage-support] Re: tab-completion in new IPython-command line

2016-09-02 Thread John Cremona
On 2 September 2016 at 19:00, John H Palmieri wrote: > I found one way to view more methods: hit Ctrl-L to clear the screen > first, and/or use a larger terminal window. If your "sage:" prompt is at > the very bottom of a terminal window, it will only include a few lines of > methods when you hit