Subject: Ubuntu only has outdated and broken (x)maxima
From: Andrey G. Grozin
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:36:29 +0700 (NOVST)
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Fabrizio Caruso wrote:
> The latest maxima version in Ubuntu is 5.9.2
> and xmaxima is totaly broken (it crashes
> once you try to evaluate something).
5.9.2 is *way* too old.
> I managed to recompile it successfully
> and it works fine but a package is how most
> people would like to install it.
Do you know how to produce debs? I know how to make rpms and Gentoo
ebuilds, but not debs. But I am sure this must be easy.
Probably, it is better to wait just a little: 5.10 is going to appear any
moment now. After that, it would be good to have packages for all popular
Linux distributions. I can do an ebuild.
Andrey