Installation

[lethe] % cd /util
[lethe] /util% sudo mv /tmp/sage-5.10.tar .
[lethe] /util% sudo tar -xvf sage-5.10.tar
[lethe] /util% cd sage-5.10

[lethe] /util% setenv SAGE_INSTALL_GCC yes

[lethe] sage-5.10% sudo env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/util/gcc/lib64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} make

Notes

1. Sage is an omnibus package that embeds local versions of the math software packages it depends upon rather than linking to existing versions of those math software packages. It's a very large install. It takes all day to build.

References

1. http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html