On 4/1/06, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
> The only really reliable way it to get Maxima
> rpm built exactly for distro you use (name and version!).
> Otherwise workability isn't guaranteed.
> Other option -- build it from scratch.
> It isn't actually so hard.
agreed on all points here.
to recompile maxima, you need a lisp implementation.
i'll recommend clisp (http://clisp.cons.org).
once you have clisp installed, download the src.rpm from
the SF file manager, and unpack it:
$ sudo rpm -ih maxima-5.9.3.src.rpm
then
$ cd /usr/src/local # or whereever it is that rpm puts the source code
and then
$ sudo rpmbuild -bb SPECS/maxima.spec
which creates .rpm files in /usr/src/local/RPMS .
(you almost certainly need superuser privileges to write files
to /usr/src/local, hence the sudo. perhaps you can get your
friendly system administrator to handle it.)
if you (or anyone) creates rpms, we can host them at SF
or something like that; it would be useful to anyone running
the same linux flavor.
hth,
robert