On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:00 +0100, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> The problem is that it seems gzipped and not in the right location.
> I assume unzipping maxima-index.lisp.gz and moving it to
> /usr/share/info is the quickest solution to this problem?
>
> Secondly, taken into account that our sysadmins might have to install
> maxima
> on quite some other computers, what is the best way to solve this
> problem? Manually installing the .deb and then each time
> unzipping and copying might be cumbersome...
I had the same problem when I installed Ubuntu in the 12 PCs in our
physics lab where we use Maxima intensively. I wrote a shell script
with the following content:
sudo apt-get install maxima maxima-doc maxima-share gnuplot-x11 xmaxima
sudo gunzip /usr/share/doc/maxima-doc/info/maxima-index.lisp.gz
cd /usr/share/info
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/maxima-doc/info/maxima-index.lisp
I then transfer the script to each PC and do a "source maximascript"
Notice that Maxima in Debian/Ubuntu is very minimalist, which leads to
problems: the maxima package depends on gnuplot, but the regular gnuplot
in Debian will be of no use in Maxima; you need gnuplot-x11. If you do
not install maxima-share, a lot of the functions described in the manual
will not work. And even if you never run the program xmaxima, plotdf in
the dynamics package will not work without it.
Regards,
Jaime Villate