i have just installed sage to ubuntu 15.10, and have been following along the 'tour of sage' and have been trying to get graphics to be produced from different functions, for example
sage: show(plot(sin(x) + sin(1.6*x), 0, 40))
Launched png viewer for Graphics object consisting of 1 graphics primitive
but not png viewer was launched. am i missing something?
Unfortunately, the Sage 6.10 binary for Ubuntu 15.10 is somehow buggy (more precisely it is built with a version of gcc that is not too old with the respect to library libstdc++.so shipped with Ubuntu 15.10). This is a known problem, which will be solved in Sage 7.0. Meanwhile, a fix is indicated in this post: you have to type the following commands in a terminal (i.e. outside any Sage session)
cd SageMath/local/lib64
rm libstdc++.so.6
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
Then the png viewer will be back at the next Sage session.
yeah that worked, now can you explain what just happened, and why that solution worked? new to ubuntu
The explanation is in Volker Braun's answer to the post linked to by @eric_g.
Could you try the following from Sage
sage: from sage.misc.viewer import viewer
sage: viewer.png_viewer()
'xdg-open'
If your answer is different from 'xdg-open' above you should adapt the steps below.
Make sure that xdg-utils is installed on your computer. You can do it via
$ sudo apt-get install xdg-utils
Try to open a png file with xdg-open, namely
$ xdg-open my_picture.png
where my_picture.png should be replaced by a picture you have on your computer
If the steps 1 and 2 above works but picture still do not show up from Sage, there is something fishy.
Asked: 2016-01-11 19:57:10 +0100
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Last updated: Jan 12 '16
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