Maxima on Debian or Ubuntu



On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:46:09PM -0600, Bill Wood wrote:
> Hi, I'm considering switching Linux distributions to Debian or Ubuntu,
> and I wanted to know what the community experience was regarding using
> Maxima on either.  In particular, are there any known functional or
> performance issues?  Also, is there any difficulty staying current?
> 
> Many thanks,

On Debian you'll want maxima and maxima-share packages. In order to
keep a Debian desktop machine up to date you have to learn how to use
apt to pull things from "testing" and "unstable". This isn't very
hard. 

It works great for me.


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