SAGE Installation

Steps to Install

  1. Download the file sage-2005-date.tar, which contains the source code for SAGE and the source for all programs on which SAGE depends (including GMP 4.1, PARI 2.9, Python 2.4).
  2. Untar: 
          tar xf sage-2005-date.tar
  3. Change into the directory 
          cd sage-2005-date
  4. Optional: Read the README.txt file there.
  5. Make sage and all dependencies (this takes 5-30 minutes, depending on computer): 
          make
  6. Run sage: 
          bin/sage

Further Notes

To install SAGE you do not have to be logged in as root. Everything is installed in the directory in which you decompress sage. Currently you cannot rename this directory after doing the sage build without messing up the install (I consider this a bug).

I tested the 2005-02-28 version and it compiled with no problems on the following platforms. 

  Linux: Debian, Fedora
  OS X
  BSD: FreeBSD
  Windows XP under cygwin
I had unresolved problems with SUSE 9.2 (readline with python).

Just the Source

Here's the latest version of just the source code.