Thursday, January 27, 2011

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()




Monday, January 17, 2011

...and so it begins

The very first of many posts into the wonderful (and most of the time frustrating) world of Sage.