Pre-built Binary Install

Linux and OS X

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

Change into the directory just created, e.g., 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.

We currently distribute .dmg files for OSX. But we would like to make Sage more of a native application. Work for that is ongoing, but help is always welcome.

Microsoft Windows

The best way to install Sage on Windows is to get the free VMware player and use the VMware Sage appliance, which is available at http://www.sagemath.org/bin/microsoft_windows/ . Be sure to read README.txt in that directory.

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