On 5/8/07, Navneeth Chandrasekaran <navneethc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the the tar.gz package from sf.net and tried to install maxima
> on Ubuntu. I extracted the files to a folder, but when I typed ./configure
> from the maxima folder, I got a 'No such file or directory'. Just in case,
> here are the last few lines from untarring process...
>
> maxima-5.12.0/share/contrib/diffequations/tests/rtestode_murphy_1_2.mac
> maxima-5.12.0/share/contrib/diffequations/tests/rtestode_kamke_2_4.mac
> maxima-5.12.0/share/contrib/diffequations/tests/rtestode_kamke_1_1.mac
> tar: Skipping to next header
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
(1) Looks like the tar file is corrupted.
maxima-5.12.0.tar.gz = 17998273 bytes,
md5sum 0cc3c006ffc94e4f922161b6e6b98f11
(2) Assuming you can unpack the uncorrupted tar file,
you need to execute "sh bootstrap" (executes some
autoconf magic incantations) in the top-level maxima
directory before "./configure". Sorry that this probably isn't
documented anywhere.
Thanks for your interest in Maxima. Let us know how it goes.
Robert