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SAGE

Introduction

"Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface."

"Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab."

Website: http://www.sagemath.org/

Installation Instructions

Look for the package named sagemath in the Synaptic Package Manager and install it. Ubuntu (as of 3-5-2009) will install Sagemath Version 3.0.5 while as of the same date the latest version offered by the Sagemath team is 3.4.1.

Alternatively open a terminal and type: 

sudo apt-get install sagemath

Getting Started With Sage

Open a terminal and type sage and press enter. The sage command line interface should start up. Wait for the sage prompt to come up. It would looks thus: 

sage:

This may take a while depending on your hardware.

The first time you use sage you will be asked to set a password to secure your work.

Choice of Sage Interface: Command Line Or GUI

You have a choice of using sage either from the command line or from a GUI. In order to use the GUI interface to sage use the sage prompt to type: 

notebook()

This will open the GUI interface to sage which is the well known Firefox web browser.

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