Sage Download And Installation Guide

  1. Determine your operating system. (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, etc.)
  2. Determine your CPU type. (32bit or 64bit)

  3. Do you want source or binary distribution?
    • Usually (even if you want to do development) you will be satisfied with a precompiled version of Sage (binary release).

      The source distribution is only needed if you want to see the sources of the Sage packages, also known as SPKGs.

  4. If available, choose the appropriate binary version from one of the download mirrors.

  5. Follow the Installation Guide to actually install Sage.

Trouble shooting

  1. If no binary version is available for you system, download the source version. Note that Sage does not compile on every system.
  2. (((rhx: That should go to the installation guide or (even better) the error message related to sage-flags.txt should change.))) You might run into the following issue with a binary release due to different features of your system and the system on which Sage was compiled.

  3. Ask for help on the sage-support mailing list.