On 11/25/08, N.A.Beishuizen at ctw.utwente.nl
<N.A.Beishuizen at ctw.utwente.nl> wrote:
> I just tried load(affine) to check out the grobner basis algorithm and the linear solver but it says:
>
> ;; Loading file /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine/sys-declaim.lisp ...
> ;; Loaded file /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine/sys-declaim.lisp
> 0 errors, 0 warnings
> Load failed for /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine/affine.lisp
> -- an error. To debug this try debugmode(true);
Probably the problem is that you do not have write permission
for /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine, and the Lisp
compiler wants to write some files there.
A couple of possible work-arounds:
(1) run maxima as root and load(affine) once to compile it,
then after that you can run maxima as an ordinary user & load(affine).
(2) copy the affine directory to /tmp or someplace you can write it,
and load it from there.
I'm sorry about this problem -- probably affine & other packages
which need to be compiled should be compiled when the Maxima
release is created.
best
Robert Dodier