Installation on fedore 7 and 8



On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  # rpm -ivh maxima-5.14.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm \
>  >         maxima-exec-clisp-5.14.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
>  >  error: Failed dependencies:
>  >          libreadline.so.4 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.14.0-1.centos4.i386
>
>  Probably the best thing to do is to try to install Maxima rpms
>  specifically for Fedora 8.
>  Maybe all you need to do is: sudo yum update maxima
>  If that doesn't work, googling for "maxima 5.14.0 fedora 8 rpm"
>  brings up some hits.

I am using Maxima on F8. To install it:

yum install maxima

In case you want to install wxmaxima too:

yum install wxmaxima

Paul