Re: installation problem in Fedora 5?



Zoltan Voros wrote:

> I have recently updated my FC4 system, and tried to install maxima on 
> Fedora 5, but run into a bit of a predicament.
> yum install maxima seems to work fine, however, when I want to start 
> maxima, it aborts with the message
> Unrecoverable error: fault count too high.
> Aborted

Many lisp implementations on fc5 are (apparently) busted due to selinux,
with sbcl (?not sure why?) being the exception.

Try one of:
1.  disable selinux
2.  Use the sbcl runtime instead:
yum install maxima-runtime-sbcl
yum remove  maxima-rumtime-gcl

-- Rex