Sage installation (Stations of the Cross)

[Zozio Descimes]

I tried to install Sage.

I have downloaded by emule a virtual VmWare machine named: sage-6.4.1.ova.

first when I launch it, I got a pop up message i:

The import failed because C:\Users\ortollj\Downloads\Datas\Téléchargements\Sage\sage-6.4.1.ova did not pass OVF specification conformance or virtual hardware compliance checks.

Click Retry to relax OVF specification and virtual hardware compliance checks and try the import again, or click Cancel to cancel the import. If you retry the import, you might not be able to use the virtual machine in VMware Player.

so I cliked on retry button , there was a message in the VM :importing sage 6.4.1 (2), it took more than 5 minutes to complete.

and now my keyboard is french and the VM needs an English one ! . I suppose I have to quit the sage program to return to Linux in the Vm and in  /etc/X/XF86Config 

change "en" in "fr"  ? .

why it is so difficult to install sage ?

[Zozio Descimes]

I forgot to tell:my OS is Windows8 64 bits , an before using sage in VM I've tried to install it  during one hour without success !

it was like ping pong game beetween Mirror site !, an I have not been able to understand how to do it !

[Dima Pasechnik]

IMHO this ova is not for VmWare, it is for VirtualBox.
https://www.virtualbox.org/

[Zozio Descimes]

it is the same problem with VirtualBox, the VM works the same with VMwarePlayer  than with  VirtualBox, when I enter letter "q"  i got "a" and conversely., How I can change the Keyboard ? I did not find it in VM Virtualbox configuration.

[slelievre]

Maybe this can help?

http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance#Changing_the_keyboard_layout

[Zozio Descimes]

not really this is what I got with Right-Ctrl and F1  !

Sorry , but I give up, too much time spent. Bye 

 

[kcrisman]

not really this is what I got with Right-Ctrl and F1  !

Sorry , but I give up, too much time spent. Bye 

I'm not sure why it gave connectivity issues, but the page in question I reproduce below for your convenience, should you choose to try again (VM experts - should that be localhost:8080 now?):

8.1. Changing the keyboard layout

8.1.1. For the graphical web browser

The easiest way to use your keyboard layout of choice is to use the host browser and connect to the Sage server running at http://localhost:8000. However, if you want to permanently change the layout in the virtual machine browser, you can do this as follows:

1. Log into the virtual machine as user sage. For example, you can log into the virtual machine from the text-mode console: Press Right-Ctrl and F1 for a different tty. The user account running the web browser is called sage with password sage. See the advanced options section for more details.

2. Edit the sage user's .xinitrc file:

   sagevm login: sage
   Password:
   Last login: Tue Jul 12 13:32:39 on tty9
   [sage@sagevm ~]# nano .xinitrc

   and add setxkbmap <keyboard-coutry-code> as the first line. The country code is usually the two-character country code, for example de, gb, fi, fr, ... To use the dvorak keyboard layout you would write

   setxkbmap dvorak

   The complete list is described in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst.

3. Save: Press Ctrl-X to exit, y to save, Enter to save it under the previous name .xinitrc

4. Reboot the virtual machine to switch to the new keyboard layout.

8.1.2. Manually changing the layout on the console

To temporarily change the keyboard layout (for example, French AZERTY), you can drop to the shell and run the command

sudo loadkeys azerty

To make this change permanent, you have to edit a configuration file. Run

sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

and set it to the following:

KEYTABLE="fr-latin1"
MODEL="pc105+inet"
LAYOUT="fr"

 

[Zozio Descimes]

thank's Slelievre and kcrisman
it has worked ! french keyboard is used  in Sage now   :).

I made a mistake when I try to Right-Ctrl and F1, you mean the Ctrl touch at the right of the keyboard !
me I press the  left touch Ctrl  with rigth arrow  and F1 !!  :(
I tried  left arrow left touch Ctrl with left arrow and F1 too !! stupid I was !.