On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 17:46 -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?
Hi,
I use Ubuntu in my MacBook and in my desktops, and Debian in my
servers. In all of them Maxima works perfectly well. I do not install
the official Debian packages, because they are usually too old. You can
use alien to create deb packages from the Fedora rpm's in the
homepage, and install with "dpkg -i package-name.deb". There are
very few dependencies; you need clisp, which you can install from
the Ubuntu/Debian repositories. If you want to stay even more
current, I recommend using the CVS version. It is very easy to
build Maxima from it.
Regards,
Jaime