Re: xmaxima won't start on freshly installed Fedora5



Fabrizio Caruso wrote:

 > I have freshly installed Fedora 5.
 >
 > I have installed through "yum"
 > maxima and the maxima-gui (xmaxima)
 > package from the Fedora5 repository.
 > "yum" should also take care of installing
 > dependent packages.
 >
 > If I type:
 > xmaxima
 >
 > I get:
 > /usr/bin/xmaxima: line 3: exec: wish: not found
 >
 > I cannot find any package in the Fedora5 repository
 > called "wish" or anything similar.

maxima-gui includes
Requires: tk
which is the pkg that contains /usr/bin/wish
Not sure how/why yum didn't install it for you the first time.

$ yum install tk

-- Rex