Impossible to launch sage after downloading the .tar.bz

[Daniel]

Hello,
I've just bougth a new laptop and after installing Xubuntu 16.10, I tried to install SageMath. So I downloaded the file, like explained on the website but when I try to launch it, I have this error message :

Somebody has a clue ?

[Dominique Laurain]

I see only .tar.bz2 files here : http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/math/sagemath/linux/32bit/index.html

and here : http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/math/sagemath/linux/64bit/index.html

When running sage, you start two "sage" scripts in your Linux shell environment.

I advice you to begin with debugging these scripts because it looks like you have a "user directory install" (in your home directory ~daniel).

Start with a :

sage -h

sage -root

You surely missed setting one shell environment variable, because names of files or directories in your displayed error messages are weird.

For debug purposes, add some lines like : echo "DANIEL 1 : sage root = " $SAGE_ROOT in the sage scripts

Difficult for me to help more : I have build my sage local  from sources, maybe a different way than you.

You should have written previous terminal commands (after copying the package archive) in your post...that helps people who want to help you.

Dominique