SAGE Installation

The installation went perfectly fine, following the steps that were provided online.

Here are my step by step instructions:

DOWNLOAD

• Website: http://www.sagemath.org/

• Click: Download 4.6.1

• Choose :North America – James Madison University, VA,USA

• From the Subdirectories –Click: intel

• Click :http://wiki.sagemath.org/DownloadAndInstallationGuide

• Choose: Binary installation guide

• Click: http://www.sagemath.org/download.html

• Choose: North America – James Madison University, VA,USA

• Click: Sage Mirror Content

• Download for Apple Mac OS X - binary distribution for Mac OS X

• Click intel

• Choose: sage-4.6-OSX-32bit-10.4-i386-Darwin.dmg

How to INSTALL:

• You see a folder called "sage", proceed as follows.

• Drag the sage folder somewhere, e.g., /Applications

• Use finder to visit the sage folder you just copied it and double click on the "sage" icon.

• Select to run it with "Terminal":

Choose Applications, then select "All Applications" in the"Enable:" drop down. Change the "Applications" drop downto "Utilities". On the left, scroll and select "Terminal".

Click "Open", then in the next dialog select "Update".

In TERMINAL:

To start sage type : /Applications/sage/sage

For the graphical notebook, typenotebook()