[Axiom-developer] RE: Polymake needs permission to write a file

[Page, Bill]

Martin,

On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:21 AM you wrote:
> 
> Page, Bill writes:
> 
>  > I don't think so. The developers only provide one rpm file for
linux
>  > systems.
> 
> No: Quoting http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake/download_choice.html
> 
> Binary packages for RedHat, SuSE, and other Linux distributions with
> RPM-based software management
> 
> End user package
> polymake-2.1.0-2.athlon.rpm 10046242 20:32 Jan 21 2005
> 
> polymake-2.1.0-2.i586.rpm 8716518 19:53 Jan 21 2005
> 
> polymake-2.1.0-2.i686.rpm 9995110 21:11 Jan 21 2005
> 
> Developer package
> polymake-devel-2.1.0-2.athlon.rpm 878609 20:32 Jan 21 2005
> 
> polymake-devel-2.1.0-2.i586.rpm 934404 19:53 Jan 21 2005
> 
> polymake-devel-2.1.0-2.i686.rpm 877174 21:11 Jan 21 2005
> 

Yes, for different *hardware* but not different versions of linux.

I installed the end user package for the Intel 686 machine:

address@hidden page]$ ls -l -d poly*.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  1 page  page  9995110 Jan 21  2005 polymake-2.1.0-2.i686.rpm

address@hidden page]$ uname -a
Linux axiom-developer.org 2.6.11.10-RH1956 #9 SMP Fri May 20 20:48:44
CDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
address@hidden page]$

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But this is a shared *virtual* server so although this is a i686 machine
maybe we do not get to use the whole i686 instruction set?

Did you install the i586 version?

I will download and install the i586 version and see if that corrects
the problem.

Regards,
Bill Page.