Installing Sage 6 And Opening It On Windows 8 Pc With 64 Bit

This question is mainly about installation of Sage, but I figured I'd give here a try: also in general I'm a bit confused regarding installation of Sage: I went to the download pag

Solution 1:

Not irrelevant at all, but you didn't read the instructions for Windows. Currently there is only a virtualization option - one which is pretty popular, from what I can tell.

Here is one mirror that might be near you, and note it says

Please read the Sage Virtual Machine manual.

Short version - you download VirtualBox and the .ova file, and that starts things off.

I'm not sure why the VM version hasn't been updated to 6.1.1 yet, and I'll ask about that.

Edit: see this link on the sage-release list where the updated ova files are hot off the presses!