Problem/s with Maxima, et al (on Ubuntu 8.10)



On Seg, 2009-01-05 at 11:55 -0500, Henry W. Peters wrote:
> This is was, however, an error message I got when trying to run the
> plot 
> demonstrations in xMaxima:
> 
> xmaxima error
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error

Can you please tell us the exact command you used?
You can try using the following command before to attempt to do the
plot:
   set_plot_option([plot_format,openmath])$
does that work?

Regards,
Jaime