Short installation instructions
Step 1. To use the features developed by Sage-combinat, you first need to install Sage. You have two options.
- Binary installation (takes less time; only option on Windows; only works if a binary exists for your system):
Download a binary distribution for your system from http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/binaries/4.1.combinat/ and follow the installation instructions
- Source installation (recommended, but time-consuming; works for Linux and OSX as long as you have a compilier):
Download the source code from http://sagemath.org/download-source.html and follow the installation instructions on that page.
Step 2. If you really need the latest features: install the Sage-Combinat patches by running the following command inside the sage directory:
./sage -combinat install
This works best with the latest version of Sage (4.1 as of 06/10/2009). If this step fails, please send an email to the sage-combinat-devel mailing list with the error message.
Long instructions
See the Patch server Step by step tutorial (in particular, how to download Sage-Combinat)