Installation from a pre-built binary tarball should in the long run be the easiest and fastest way to install Sage. This is not necessarily the case right now. Note that Sage is itself a programming environment, so building it from source guarantees you maximum flexibility in the long run. Nonetheless, we provide pre-built binaries.
Assumptions: You have a computer with at least 550 megabytes free disk space and the operating system is Linux (32-bit or 64-bit) or OS X.
Highly Recommended: It is highly recommended that you have latex installed.
Download the latest tarball from
http://www.sagemath.org/download.html.
For example, it might be called sage-x.y.z-x86_64-Linux.tgz
.
Unpack it on your computer in a directory which you have permissions:
tar zxvf sage-x.y.z-x86_64-Linux.tgz
sage-x.y.z-x86_64-Linux
and type ./sage
to run Sage. You can move the directory
sage-x.y.z-x86_64-Linux
anywhere, and still
run sage
from it. You can also copy sage
and put it anywhere, e.g., /usr/local/bin/
, but
you'll have likely have to edit the ROOT="....."
line at the top.
See About this document... for information on suggesting changes.