the "dynamics" package and numerical solution of DEs

On 1/21/07, Daniel Lakeland <dlakelan at street-artists.org> wrote:

> If you're running Debian, you'll also need the "maxima-share" package
> which has all the "non-core" maxima stuff. I'm not sure why the Debian
> packager does this, but I think it's a debian policy to split out
> "nonessential" portions of packages...
>
> This might be a reason why it doesn't find the "dynamics" package,
> because you will need to "load(dynamics);" before getting rk.
>
> "? rk" is supposed to give you info on how to use the runge-kutta ODE
> integrator. It works for me on windows, but on Debian it doesn't find
> the docs,

If there's something odd about the Debian package for Maxima,
it would be very helpful if you submit a bug report to the package
maintainer, if you have time. Same goes for packages created
by any downstream packager.

I remember some time ago there was a problem that the packages
produced by Debian (or maybe some other project) borked the
help system by compressing (gzip) the .info files. I thought that was
resolved but I really don't know for sure. Ideally of course Maxima
should be able to read compressed info; it is only a "small matter
of programming". 8^)

All the best,
Robert