Sage

[artesian_spring]

I've seen SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org/) recommended on this forum as a good math package, so I downloaded it. I didn't install it, though, since I already have many of the packages it includes (Maxima, Octave, R, and others). Is there a way to just install the SAGE environment and then direct it to the programs I already have, or would I need to uninstall them and then install SAGE?

Thanks.

[jonas_e]

Is there a reason why Sage is neither in Applications->Add/Remove... nor in Synaptic? Is it not "popular" enough?

[AlanRogers]

Isn't it a little dangerous naming a Linux program, especially one that's a numeric utility, a little short-sighted when one of the best known accounting packages carries the same name?

Rhetorical question really. It just struck me as courting disaster.