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<filename>This error message normally indicates that the file exists, but can not be read.
If the file is present and readable there is another possible for this error
message: Maxima can compile packages to native binary files in order to make them
run faster. If after compiling the file something in the system has changed in a
way that makes it incompatible with the binary the binary the file cannot be
loaded any more. Maxima normally puts binary files it creates from its own packages
in a folder named binary within the folder whose name it is printed after
typing:
(%i1) maxima_userdir; (%o1) /home/gunter/.maxima
If this directory is missing maxima will recreate it again as soon as it has to compile a package.