There are'nt binary distribution for Ubuntu 11.10, the 10.04 version is bad for this purpose.
I think: the bad is bad.
czsan (Jan 24 '12)Have you tried just deleting you sage installation directory and unpacking sage from http://boxen.math.washington.edu/sage/linux/64bit/sage-4.8-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.3_lts-x86_64-Linux.tar.lzma? All you notebooks are in your home. So they will not be affected. Can you explain what you mean by " From source there is a problem with installing the python package"
Shashank (Jan 24 '12)"From source there is a problem with installing the python package" It is an error-message.
czsan (Jan 27 '12)Can you explain how you are trying to install it on Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu 11.10 and all I did was unpacked the 10.04 version and started using the binaries without building it from the source. It works fine for me. All I have to do is add the path of sage directory to PATH environment so that I can call it from any directory.
Shashank (Jan 27 '12)
Do you have openssl (it's an ubuntu package) installed? Perhaps it will cure "No module named _md5" thing.
Dima (Jan 25 '12)The binary must match the version, certainly. Just built it from source! It's easier than it sounds...
Dima (Jan 25 '12)I use Sage from version 3.x. The problem begin at 4.7.x and with Ubuntu 11.x.
czsan (Jan 27 '12)I installed the libssl0.9.8 package; the binary distribution runs. But what is the "ocal/lib/python2.6/site-packages/distribute-0.6.16-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py:2322: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal" message?
czsan (Jan 27 '12)