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installation error experimental packages

I am trying to install a new experimental package from within sage (asymptote in this case) and get the following error message:

sage: sage.misc.package.install_package('asymptote-1.29') Attempting to download package asymptote-1.29

Checking online list of optional packages. [Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 29, in <module> File "/misc/ada2/visit/betea/Programs/sage-5.8/local/lib/python/urllib.py", line 244, in retrieve tfp = open(filename, 'wb') IOError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/dev/stdout' Error: failed to download http://www.sagemath.org/spkg/optional/list, aborting

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installation error experimental packages

I am trying to install a new experimental package from within sage (asymptote in this case) and get the following error message:

sage: sage.misc.package.install_package('asymptote-1.29') Attempting to download package asymptote-1.29

Checking online list of optional packages. [Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 29, in <module> File "/misc/ada2/visit/betea/Programs/sage-5.8/local/lib/python/urllib.py", line 244, in retrieve tfp = open(filename, 'wb') IOError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/dev/stdout' Error: failed to download http://www.sagemath.org/spkg/optional/list, aborting

Any help?