How do I install a package 'TOPCOM'

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Can you try the new spkg at Trac #13499? The easiest way is to open a terminal, go to the Sage directory, and run

[user@localhost Sage]$ ./sage -f http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/spkg/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg

Also ticket needs review if you want the updated version distributed with Sage...

Volker, thank you for your answer. Alas, following your instructions produces exactly the same error message on my MacBookPro with OSX 10.8.2 as using the Sage session:

Weasel:sage user$ ./sage -f http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/spkg/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg
Attempting to download package TOPCOM-0.17.4
>>> Downloading TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg.
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TOPCOM-0.17.4
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Extracting package /Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/spkg/optional/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg
-rw-r--r--  1 user  admin  901874 Jan  4 11:57 /Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/spkg/optional/TOPCOM-0.17.4.spkg
Finished extraction
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Host system:
Darwin Weasel.local 12.2.1 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1: Thu Oct 18 16:32:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.20.9~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
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C compiler: gcc
C compiler version:
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/local/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0/4.6.3/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0
Configured with: ../src/configure --prefix=/Users/dehayebuildbot/build/sage/dehaye/dehaye_binary/build/sage-5.5/local --with-local-prefix=/Users/dehayebuildbot/build/sage/dehaye/dehaye_binary/build/sage-5.5/local --with-gmp=/Users/dehayebuildbot/build/sage/dehaye/dehaye_binary/build/sage-5.5/local --with-mpfr=/Users/dehayebuildbot/build/sage/dehaye/dehaye_binary/build/sage-5.5/local --with-mpc=/Users/dehayebuildbot/build/sage/dehaye/dehaye_binary/build/sage-5.5/local --with-system-zlib --disable-multilib  
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.6.3 (GCC) 
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WARNING: spkg-install is not executable, making it executable
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/spkg/build/TOPCOM-0.17.4/src':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
Error configuring TOPCOM.

real    0m1.300s
user    0m0.149s
sys 0m0.138s
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Error installing package TOPCOM-0.17.4
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Please email sage-devel (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel)
explaining the problem and including the relevant part of the log file
  /Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/spkg/logs/TOPCOM-0.17.4.log
Describe your computer, operating system, etc.
If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, *don't* just cd to
/Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/spkg/build/TOPCOM-0.17.4 and type 'make' or whatever is appropriate.
Instead, the following commands setup all environment variables
correctly and load a subshell for you to debug the error:
  (cd '/Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/spkg/build/TOPCOM-0.17.4' && '/Applications/Sage-5.5-OSX-64bit-10.8.app/Contents/Resources/sage/sage' -sh)
When you are done debugging, you can type "exit" to leave the subshell.