I have a student with a Mac machine. He would like to install Maxima,
but he does not know how to get a command terminal to be able to do
"sudo port ...". I do not know that either. Can you guys help?
Thanks.
Milan
* Sheldon Newhouse <sen1 at math.msu.edu> [2007-11-06 07:03:53 -0500]:
> Jean-Paul.ROY at unice.fr wrote:
> > [MacBook pro Intel, MacOS-X 10.5]
> > I fail to install maxima following the suggestions of :
> >
> > http://maxima.darwinports.com/
> >
> > I can install darwinports but then :
> >
> > % cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/maxima # those
> > directories do not exist !
> > % sudo port install maxima
> >
> > fails with errors when installing sbcl.
> >
> > I notice that binaries are available for Windows. Should I abandon my
> > Unix machine (Mac) for a superior Windows machine to run Maxima ?
> >
> > Thanks for the rest of us,
> >
> > -jpr
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> You first have to have a lisp installed. The message
>
> "fails with errors when installing sbcl."
>
> indicates that sbcl is not installed (I think).
>
> When you install maxima from sources (which I do), you have to already have some version of 'lisp' already installed.
>
> Try
>
> sudo port install sbcl
>
> When that is finished, you can try
> sudo port install maxima
>
> Actually, I prefer to install maxima from source directly. That way I keep various versions, if a new version breaks some things I need. Recall that maxima is constantly being developed, and some things change for the worse in a new version, only to be fixed later.
>
> To do this, here is what I do.
>
> 1. Download the source from maxima.sourceforge.net
> Suppose this is
> maxima-5.13.0.tar.gz
>
> 2. I put this into
> /usr/local/src
>
> 3. Then, do the following
> gunzip maxima-5.13.0.tar.gz
> tar xvf maxima-5.13.0.tar
> cd maxima-5.13.0
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> This should give you a working maxima
>
> If you want to use rmaxima, you need to install 'rlwrap'
> sudo port install rlwrap
>
> HTH,
> -sen
>
>
> Note: I am using 'Tiger'
> I presume the procedure is the same for 'Leopard'
>
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