> Hello
>
Hello Alexios,
> I have been trying to promote the use of Maxima in Greece over the last
> 3 months, but most of the people in Greece (also in Europe, as far as I
> know) that run a Linux machine, are using Ubuntu. The package manager
> provides Maxima 5.12 and wxmaxima 0.7.1, so it's a little bit outdated.
>
You are 100% right. This is a problem for ubuntu users. I have made some
ubuntu packages for gnuplot, maxima and wxmaxima in the past, but I'm
not an expert building packages and I had some problems with them, so
that I gave up with this idea.
> Finally I was able to compile Maxima 5.14 but I failed at wxmaxima
> 0.7.4.
I frequently compile all three programs in ubuntu with success. This is
(more or less) the procedure I follow (not sure if all of these
dependencies are strictly necessary):
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For gnuplot:
Install from synaptic:
g++
libwxgtk2.8-dev
xorg-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libgd2-xpm-dev
libxml2-dev
./configure
make
sudo make install
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For maxima:
Install from synaptic:
texinfo
texi2html
automake1.9
tk8.4
clisp
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
make clean
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For wxmaxima:
Install from synaptic:
libc6
libgcc1
libstdc++6-dev
libwxgtk2.8-0
libwxgtk2.8-dev
zlib1g-dev
libxml2-dev
./configure
make
sudo make install
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> * Should we contact Ubuntu repositories instead for that issue?
>
Having the newest versions of all three programs from official
repositories would be the ideal situation.
> * Is there a problem, in general, in solving wxmaxima's dependencies to
> install from source?
>
I don't think so. As said, I have compiled the gnuplot-maxima-wxmaxima
team without problems from ubuntu 5.10 up to feisty without problems.
Try the above procedure and let's see what happens.
hth
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