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From: Piotr Sawuk <piotr5@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] does sage work?
Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 18:16:13
Message-Id: 5186A1CA.4090301@users.sf.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] does sage work? by Christopher Schwan
1 On 2013-05-05 10:56, Christopher Schwan wrote:
2 > On Sunday 05 May 2013 10:34:00 you wrote:
3 >> I emerged sage and after starting it I wrote:
4 >>
5 >> x=var('x');simplify(x+1-x)
6 >>
7 >> and as a result I got:
8 >>
9 >> RuntimeError: ECL says: Module error: Don't know how to REQUIRE MAXIMA.
10 >>
11 >> if anyone else has sage installed, does above work?
12 >
13 > Yes, it does.
14 >
15 >> if yes, what are the versions of software sage is depending on?
16 >
17 > I've got the same as you.
18 >
19 >> "equery --no-color g =sci-mathematics/sage-5.8-r3" shows me:
20 >>
21 >> sci-mathematics/sage-5.8-r3:
22 >> [ 0] sci-mathematics/sage-5.8-r3
23 >> [ 1] dev-lisp/ecls-12.12.1
24 >> [ 1] sci-mathematics/maxima-5.29.1-r1
25 >> [..]
26 >
27 > Reinstalling both deps should fix the problem:
28 >
29 > emerge -1 =dev-lisp/ecls-12.12.1
30 > emerge -1 =sci-mathematics/maxima-5.29.1-r1
31 >
32 wow, thanks. now it works! (I had to recompile maxima too, even though
33 only ecls had the wrong version.) thanks again for the quick solution.