On Aug 29, 8:27 am, Seb Taylor wrote:
> dear sage (and especially the linux and vm) community,
>
> i'm a complete noob to sage, linux, virtual machines, and
> virtualbox. i was able to get sage up and running on my windows vista
> laptop with minor diffuculties and now sage is working great.
>
In the command line you can give a command with administrative powers
by writing sudo before it, for examle
sudo mkdir /myfolder
will create a folder in the system root (something which requires
admin powers). You must be carefull when using sudo, since you could
damage your system if you give a
