[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-06-25 Thread kcrisman
> There should be a page with *step-by-step instructions,* with screenshots. Each step that is necessary for the installation, is necessary. The more time consuming and unpleasant such documentation might seem to be. . . well, the answer's in the question. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/h

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-06-24 Thread John H Palmieri
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:08:13 PM UTC-7, Slumberland wrote: > > > You make an arbitrary choice. You *pick* an editor, and a Tex > installation, and you make it part of SAGE, because SAGE can't display math > without it. > This is just not true. Sage can display most run-of-the-mill math wit

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-06-24 Thread Slumberland
I agree with this: On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:52:23 AM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > I was introducing some folks to downloading Sage on Windows the other day, > and I think that this particular workflow is proving to be confusing to > more than just Mr. Rose. I think it's very simple. The infor

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-05-22 Thread kcrisman
On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:13:34 AM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: > > I've been working on updating the wiki instructions, and broken out the > installation instructions into a separate wiki page: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageApplianceInstallation > > Maybe we can link this more prominently to

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-05-22 Thread Volker Braun
I've been working on updating the wiki instructions, and broken out the installation instructions into a separate wiki page: http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageApplianceInstallation Maybe we can link this more prominently to the windows download page? Volker On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:52:23 AM UTC

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-05-22 Thread kcrisman
I was introducing some folks to downloading Sage on Windows the other day, and I think that this particular workflow is proving to be confusing to more than just Mr. Rose. I wonder if there isn't some better way of putting very prominent instructions BEFORE the big list of mirrors, especially

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-05-21 Thread P Purkayastha
On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:52:28 AM UTC+8, Kermit Rose wrote: > > On 5/21/2012 2:19 PM, sage-support@googlegroups.com wrote: > > john_perry_usm May 20 12:03PM -0700 > > > > On Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:51:56 PM UTC-5, Kermit Rose wrote: > > > > > I came to the sage web page in order to downlo

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-05-21 Thread John H Palmieri
On Monday, May 21, 2012 1:45:44 PM UTC-7, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > Now click on > "README-virtualbox.txt" > > and read it. Follow the directions in the link in README-virtualbox.txt > (which includes dow

[sage-support] Re: How do I download SAGE?

2012-05-21 Thread John H Palmieri
On Monday, May 21, 2012 12:52:28 PM UTC-7, Kermit Rose wrote: > > On 5/21/2012 2:19 PM, sage-support@googlegroups.com wrote: > > john_perry_usm May 20 12:03PM -0700 > > > > On Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:51:56 PM UTC-5, Kermit Rose wrote: > > > > > I came to the sage web page in order to downl