Hello Richard,
> I have just tried to install the latest maxima rpm on redhat 9.2 for
> intel. Uponi invoking the maxima command in a terminal, I get the
> message "/usr/bin/maxima: unable to determine MAXIMA_PREFIX".
>
> xmaxima does not work either. There is no command line for input.
Did you install a maxima-exec rpm as well as maxima and maxima-xmaxima ?
There is a maxima-exec-gcl rpm on the Sourceforge file manager.
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933)
That rpm was built on a Fedora Core 1 system, so it's possible that it won't
install successfully on RH 9.2. If you have GCL, CMUCL, or Clisp
on your system I believe it will be straightforward to rebuild Maxima
from the source rpm.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier