Hi Leo,
My guess is that you have no rights to write to maxima directory.
Do you install maxima in the system directory? The problem is that under first
time loading of lapack the program tries to compile all lapack routines and
to write them in maxima lapack dir. If you are the owner of your PC
you could do chown -fR leo:leo /usr/share/maxima (or something like this).
Otherwise please install it in your home dir. Or ask superuser to load lapack
hope this helps
Leo Butler wrote:
> Hello,
> I just installed maxima-5.15.0 from the .rpm files on sourceforge, after
> converting them to .deb packages. Here is the output produced when I tried
> to load the lapack library:
>
> <quote>
> $ maxima
> Maxima 5.15.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp CLISP 2.39 (2006-07-16)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) load(lapack)$
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
> Load failed for /usr/share/maxima/5.15.0/share/lapack/load-lapack.lisp
> -- an error. To debug this try debugmode(true);
> (%i2)
> </quote>
>
> Do you have any advice?
> Leo Butler
>
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1