Installing Sage 6 and opening it on windows 8 PC w

问题:

This question is mainly about installation of Sage, but I figured I'd give here a try: also in general I'm a bit confused regarding installation of Sage:

I went to the download page, after choosing the server close to my location:

sage-6.1.1.tar.gz

and downloaded it to my windows 8, 64-bit PC. However, the file is not opening (I double clicked on it in order to run it) in my PC, even after installing 7-zip, with which I could extract/convert it to a .tar file. What is your suggestion for opening it and getting Sage to work? I thought that its installation would be as simple as that of python itself, where I did not run into a opening/running problem.

Apologies if this is an irrelevant question for this site!

回答1:

Not irrelevant at all, but you didn't read the instructions for Windows. Currently there is only a virtualization option - one which is pretty popular, from what I can tell.

Here is one mirror that might be near you, and note it says

Please read the Sage Virtual Machine manual.

Short version - you download VirtualBox and the .ova file, and that starts things off.

I'm not sure why the VM version hasn't been updated to 6.1.1 yet, and I'll ask about that.

Edit: see this link on the sage-release list where the updated ova files are hot off the presses!