INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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The file sage-x.y.z-i686-Linux.tgz, which you download here,
contains a pre-built version of SAGE that can be decompressed
into a directory and run from there.  Just type

   tar zxvf sage-x.y.z-i686-Linux.tgz

then change into the resulting directory and type "./sage" to 
run SAGE.  You can move the directory wherever you want afterwards too.

NOTE: The Debian/Ubuntu version will likely work on many other Linux distributions,
since it was built on a minimal Debian install. To be on the safe side, build 
from source.

If the filename ends on .lzma see below.


LZMA
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If the binary ends on *.lzma you can extract it using

   tar --lzma -xf sage-x.y.z-...tar.lzma

XZ
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and *.xz compressed files via

   tar -xJvf sage-*...tar.xz

or any GUI tool like file-roller or via right-click extract in a file browser.
You can also use XZ to extract LZMA files.

64-bit 
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You can use this on both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux computers.  On an
opteron 64-bit machine, you'll get better performance (and use of more
than 2GB RAM) by using the binary that is built specially for that
machine instead (which is in another directory).  Look in the linux_64bit
directory. 


PUPPY LINUX
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See http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51198