Newbie question on Mac

[Fernando Gouvea]

I typically use Windows, but today I was trying to install Sage on the Mac in one of my classrooms. It turns out to be running OSX 10.13.6, and the only binaries I could find were version 8.7. I managed to download and install those. It runs in a terminal window. The instructions say to type notebook() to get the notebook interface, but that shows a warning that it is deprecated and I should use Jupyter instead. I would like to... but how? I tried to find an answer in the documentation, but so far no luck...

Any clues? Sorry for the dumb question.

Fernando

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[Dima Pasechnik]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:34 AM Fernando Gouvea <fqgo...@colby.edu> wrote:
>
> I typically use Windows, but today I was trying to install Sage on the Mac in one of my classrooms. It turns out to be running OSX 10.13.6, and the only binaries I could find were version 8.7. I managed to download and install those. It runs in a terminal window. The instructions say to type notebook() to get the notebook interface, but that shows a warning that it is deprecated and I should use Jupyter instead. I would like to... but how? I tried to find an answer in the documentation, but so far no luck...
>
> Any clues? Sorry for the dumb question.

in the terminal run

sage -h

it will print a list of options, in particular

--notebook=[...] -- start the Sage notebook (valid options are
'default', 'sagenb', 'jupyter', and 'export')

That is,

sage --notebook=jupyter

is what you'd like

HTH
Dima

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> Fernando
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> Colby College http://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews
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> Waterville, ME 04901
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> A training in mathematics is a prerequisite today for work in almost
> any scientific field, but even for those who are not going to become
> scientists, it is essential because, if it is only through speech that
> we can understand what freedom means, only through mathematics
> can we understand what necessity means.
> -- W. H. Auden
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[kcrisman]

Incidentally, Fernando, you should also be able to use binaries created on older versions of Mac, such as the 10.11 binaries, on your 10.13 computers.  The app version may also work on those computers (Apple is locking down more and more content so in newer Mac OSes that is proving to be less the case) and that is a nice interface which also should allow you to set the Jupyter notebook as the default (as far as the app is concerned) and get used to it.