Hi!
This is a serious problem for the interactive book.
I kind of managed to install maxima 5.9.3 on Mandrake
by rpm -i --nodeps ...
It does not work when I use TeXmacs as a front-end
but it works in xmaxima and from the terminal.
This might be a TeXmacs problem or could be due to
the missing readline.
The interactive book should be easy to use and install
for the user.
Ideally the user should only install Maxima and TeXmacs.
Fabrizio
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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
>