On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:58:55PM -0500, thus spake Thomas Widlar:
>
> <>I spent several hours today to get the right version of maxima running
> on my Debian Linux.
> The version of the distribution was too old. I thought I had all
> required parts ready, but
> "load(draw)$" says:load failed. I also replaced gnuplot with version
> 4.2 which was also
> not so easy because of the dependencies.<>
>
For Debian besides "apt-get install maxima" one also needs to
"apt-get install maxima-share". "draw" is contained in the
maxima-share package, at least for Debian sid.
HTH,
Nikos