----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Mills" <smills at pcrs.net>
To: "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:31 AM
Subject: Installation on WinXP
>
> Greetings!
>
> I'm trying to install Maxima on my Windows XP machine at home. I
> downloaded and installed the 5.9.2 and have since downloaded Clisp and
> extracted it.
If you downloaded the windows executable, you are done.
The windows executable does not
need Clisp and in fact, does not even use it, but another implementation
of lisp, GCL.
But things aren't marrying-up properly. Maxima is not
> starting when I open up the program.
which program? did you click on the maxima icon?
I'm either missing a dependency, too
> ignorant to attempt implementing maxima on my own, or both.
>
> Any simple installation help out there? From what I'm reading on this
> list, this project is mostly by folks a lot more savvy than I am, and who
> leave things unsaid that the likes of this writer need to see in
> triplicate.
>
> I used macsyma years ago on a SUN 3/60 machine, and I'm excited to hear
> about an open-source CAS, but I may not have the requisite background to
> implement it myself.
>
> I've looked for all kinds of "installation for dummies" documentation and
> have failed to find the needed detail. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
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