Bug 271261 - cantor-backend-sage does not automatically appear in the list of Backends on startup
Summary: cantor-backend-sage does not automatically appear in the list of Backends on ...
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: cantor
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Rieder
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Reported: 2011-04-19 02:46 UTC by Shane
Modified: 2011-04-19 14:11 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of Cantor backend selector without Sage. (30.43 KB, image/png)
2011-04-19 02:46 UTC, Shane 		Details
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Description Shane 2011-04-19 02:46:02 UTC 
Created attachment 59115 [details]
Screenshot of Cantor backend selector without Sage.

Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

I recently installed cantor, cantor-backend-kalgebra, cantor-backend-maxima and cantor-backend-sage on my computer using Ubuntu Software Centre on Ubuntu 10.10.

I want to use the Sage backend, but it doesn't automatically appear. (screenshot attached).

I know if you change your preferences and track down the location of some files on your system, you can get it to work. Ideally however, you should just be able to install from the repositories and get everything to work seamlessly.

Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.35-28-generic
Compiler: cc

Ubuntu 10.10 (Not Kubuntu)
Comment 1 Alexander Rieder 2011-04-19 14:11:12 UTC 
I don't think there's much we can do about this. Cantor already tries to locate your Sage installation by looking at your $PATH. If it isn't found in there you have to configure it yourself, we can't anticipate were every distribution might install sage to. You should probably take this path to your distribution's bugtracker, and tell them to set things up correctly.