On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Billinghurst, David (RTATECH) wrote:
< > 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
<
< Should we do this as part of "make install"?
Thanks, yes, it was a permissions problem. I installed maxima as root and try to
run maxima as a regular user.
It strikes me that compilation of source code is properly part of the
installation process.
Regards,
Leo Butler
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