[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-18 Thread Raymond N. Greenwell
That worked! Sage is now up and running. Thanks!!! On Nov 17, 4:50 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:25:47 PM UTC-8, Raymond N. Greenwell wrote: I got XCode 3.2.6 downloaded and running. Now what? Download the Sage source tarball from

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-17 Thread Raymond N. Greenwell
Alas, I can't get Xcode 3 after all. There's a link for it on cnet, but when I click on the link, I get sent to an App Store, with the message: Your request could not be completed. I'm now in the process of downloading Xcode 4. Apple's site seems messed up at the moment. Once I get it, how should

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-17 Thread Raymond N. Greenwell
I got XCode 3.2.6 downloaded and running. Now what? On Nov 17, 9:55 am, Raymond N. Greenwell mat...@gmail.com wrote: Alas, I can't get Xcode 3 after all. There's a link for it on cnet, but when I click on the link, I get sent to an App Store, with the message: Your request could not be

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-17 Thread John H Palmieri
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:25:47 PM UTC-8, Raymond N. Greenwell wrote: I got XCode 3.2.6 downloaded and running. Now what? Download the Sage source tarball from http://sagemath.org/download-source.html. Pick a location to unpack the tarball and build Sage (say, your home

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Raymond N. Greenwell
I can't do the first suggestion because I never get to the point where I have a place to type in 2+2. The second suggestion gave me the response: No such file or directory. I don't understand the third suggestion. I entered the first line, and nothing happened when I hit enter. I then entered

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Raymond N. Greenwell
I am running OS 10.6.8, the same as on my home computer. How would I know if it is definitely 64 bit? It's just a one year old machine. I only have Xcode 2.0, but I see that I can download Xcode 4.0. I don't anything about it. Ray On Nov 16, 12:36 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-16 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Raymond N. Greenwell mat...@gmail.com wrote: I am running OS 10.6.8, the same as on my home computer. How would I know if it is definitely 64 bit? It's just a one year old machine. But if you look at the Activity Monitor there may be a column labeled Kind and if

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-16 Thread Raymond N. Greenwell
Yes, I see under activity monitor that my OS definitely supports 64- bit apps. The Xcode 2.0 might have been acquired on an earlier machine, in which case I imported it when I got this machine. I think I can get XCode 3.x, but is that wise, given that it was made for an older OS? On Nov 16, 1:03 

[sage-support] Re: problems launching Sage on a Mac

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
Hi Ray! Good to hear from you in this venue. Yes, somehow the server didn't start. Here are a few things to try. 1) Try going to the menu item on the bar (the mini-icon) and choosing the option which starts a command line session (I don't have it installed, so I don't remember the exact