> 1. Have you tried my wiki for Maxima?
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Maxima
> 2. Have you at least configured with
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
>
> 3. I have just joined the MOTU-Science team for Ubuntu and in the future
> will be pushing for the latest release of Maxima to be included in the
> official repositories and Backports.
>
Thanks a lot for all that. It's good news to know that *ubuntu users
will be able to download updated versions from the repositories; that's
one step forwards.
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Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
www.biomates.net