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Introduction

This is a guide for installing the latest version of Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ . Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and arbitrarily precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

First Section

So first this variable: "latest-version" is the latest version of Maxima (as of 3-20-007 it is 5.11.0)

In a web browser

1. download the package maxima-"latest-version".tar.gz by going to here, http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=4933

and clicking on maxima-"latest-version".tar.gz

In a terminal 2.

$ tar xfvz /"locationof"/maxima-"latest-version".tar.gz

3. $ sudo apt-get build-dep maxima

4. $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gcl

select "yes" and enable ansi which is disabled by default.

5. $ cd maxima-"latest-version"/

6. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/share --exec-prefix=/usr

7. $ make

8. $ sudo checkinstall

9. say "yes" to create a document package and paste the description of Maxima off of the website:

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and arbitrarily precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

10. type 0 and enter your email address so that people know who you are if they use your package someone@somewhere as an example

11. hit return and tell me if you get any errors. If it works it will install a Debian package of maxima 5.11 and you will have in the folder a maxima deb package that you should keep for later.

Don't spend all day at it. Just try this once if it works, great. If it doesn't just post your errors. I would give you my deb but it is built for Edgy.

Second Section

This is the website to Maxima at Sourceforge: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

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