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.

this tutorial requires: 1. an Internet connection (or an Ubuntu DVD + the latest Maxima) 2. basic knowledge of how to open and use a terminal 3. a web browser

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

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

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

In a terminal

{{{tar xfvz /"locationof"/maxima-"latest-version".tar.gz sudo apt-get build-dep maxima sudo dpkg-reconfigure gcl}}}

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

cd maxima-"latest-version"/
./configure --prefix=/usr/share --exec-prefix=/usr
make
sudo checkinstall

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

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.

When this is done type "0" then "ENTER" and enter your email address so that people know who you are if they use your package you@somewhere as an example

hit ENTER and hope for the best. Checkinstall attempts to build you a deb package which it automatically installs by default and is also included in the directory you made Maxima, i.e. the deb is in /"locationof"/maxima-"latest-version"/. Thus if everything goes smoothly you now have the latest version of maxima installed.

If you get stuck my email address is yigal.weinstein@gmail.com

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