Jorge Barros de Abreu writes:
> Hi.
>
> I am making some lectures about maxima for new users and occurs very coplains
> about sockets. There are users that at the first maxima run section they
> dissable firewall maxima access and uninstall the software for security
> reasons.
>
> Is possible make the sockets optional during the instalation process ????
>
> I am losting users.
>
It is not possible to make sockets optional during Maxima installation
since sockets are not part of Maxima they are part of Windows.
Both wxMaxima and xmaxima use sockets to communicate with Maxima kernel.
It is not required to disable firewall completely to run xmaxima and
wxMaxima. It is enough to add Maxima to firewall exceptions list.
It is absolutely safe. On the other hand konsole Maxima doesn't
require sockets at all.
Regards,
Vadim
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