[sage-support] Re: Modularity of sage?

2008-12-12 Thread Alasdair
I thought I'd try to install Sage on an external disk, but I ran into two problems: the hard disk file system doesn't support symbolic links, and my laptop's distribution (Suse 9.3) is too old to compile Sage. So until I get around to upgrading my laptop or its software (which I'm loathe to do,

[sage-support] Re: Modularity of sage?

2008-12-11 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 11, 7:41 pm, chu-ching huang wrote: > In my case, I use some python packages that are not included in Sage. > It is very to solve the problem to enhance the python computing over > Sage: just create link from system to sage directory, This is possible > to reduce disk space a little. And

[sage-support] Re: Modularity of sage?

2008-12-11 Thread chu-ching huang
In my case, I use some python packages that are not included in Sage. It is very to solve the problem to enhance the python computing over Sage: just create link from system to sage directory, This is possible to reduce disk space a little. And it is possible to upgrade additional packages and Sag

[sage-support] Re: Modularity of sage?

2008-12-11 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Alasdair wrote: > > I'd like to install Sage on a laptop with not much disk space left on > it. Now, I already have Maxima, Axiom, Pari/GP, and Python; is it > possible to just install some sort of "core" Sage from source code, > and still have the interfaces to

[sage-support] Re: Modularity of sage?

2008-12-11 Thread David Joyner
Hi Alasdair: I don't know the answer but I think it would be helpful to describe (a) how much disk space you have, (b) if there is a reason why you cannot delete maxima and python (you will get them with Sage and you can run them using "sage -python" and "sage -maxima"). - David On Thu, Dec 11,