Robert,
Thanks, running maxima as root once and load(affine) works for me.
regards,
Nijso
>> 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