Installing maxima with clisp, CLISP 2.30, CLISP 2.29 ?
Subject: Installing maxima with clisp, CLISP 2.30, CLISP 2.29 ?
From: James Amundson
Date: 17 Feb 2003 17:32:17 -0600
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:51, Masud Haque (torun) wrote:
> On my linux box, I installed maxima-5.9.0, from the rpm package
> provided at sourceforge, with maxima-exec-clisp-5.9.0-1.i386.rpm, which
> requires CLISP 2.29, according to the README.
Do you mean the file README.rpms? I think you must.
> I couldn't find clisp 2.29, so I used clisp 2.30.
The file README.rpms contains the url for the clisp 2.29 download page.
> Can someone tell me a simple way to get around this,
Yes. Get clisp 2.29 from the page listed in README.rpms.
> without getting an
> older version of clisp?
No.
> In any case, I suppose this is something the developers should know
> about.
We know all about it. I wrote the file README.rpms in hopes that it
would eliminate confusion such as yours. Is there something I could have
added to the file that would have helped?
--Jim