Maxima: Running Maxima 5.9 on amd64



On 6/26/07, C. Frangos <cfrangos at telkomsa.net> wrote:

> /usr/lib64/clisp/base/lisp.run: initialization file
> `/home/apps/lib/maxima/5.9.0/binary-clisp/maxima.mem' was not created by this
> version of CLISP runtime

Oh -- this indicates the version of Clisp on your new machine
is different from the version on the old machine.
In order to run with the new version of Clisp, Maxima needs
to be compiled with that new version.

Some options:

(1) Download Maxima binary rpm and install that.
See e.g.: http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/maxima.html?hl=com&cx=0::
There may be other web sites to obtain Maxima rpms.
For some systems, Maxima is packaged in multiple rpms.
But at the web site above, it appears all of Maxima is in one rpm.

(2) Download Maxima source rpm, build binary rpms via rpmbuild,
and install those binary rpms.

Try (1) first. You can obtain an rpm for Suse 10.1 x64 from
the above site. It is Maxima version 5.10.0.
If you rebuild from the source rpm you can get a later version,
but that's more work and if you were happy with 5.9.0, you'll
probably be happy with 5.10.0 as well.

However there is a chance that the binary rpm from the
rpmsekk.com web site is not compatible with the installed
version of Clisp. In that case you'll need to rebuild Maxima
(or replace Clisp with the appropriate version).

Hope this helps!

Robert Dodier