Installation on fedore 7 and 8



Thanks! What we found was that

# yum install wxMaxima

worked painlessly on the fedora boxes.

   Thanks, Ralph

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Robert Dodier wrote:

> On 3/10/08, Ralph Freese <ralph at math.hawaii.edu> 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.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Robert Dodier
>