problems with Maxima in Ubuntu 9.04



From: dastew at sympatico.ca
To: volkervannek at googlemail.com; maxima at math.utexas.edu
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:43:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [Maxima] problems with Maxima in Ubuntu 9.04









> Hi,
> 
> please do the following:
> 
> 1. deinstall Maxima 5.13.0 (and also xmaxima, wxmaxima, etc.) via synaptic. 
> 
> 2. make sure that you have clisp (or sbcl), 
> gnuplot and tk8.5 installed (via synaptic).
> 
> 3. download the Maxima 5.18.1 and wxMaxima 0.8.2 deb-packages
> from  http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/maxima/jaunty/  according to your Lisp-system
> 
> 4. install by double klicking on the deb packages
> 
> I can confirm that that Maxima 5.18.1 works perfectly with Ubuntu 9.04.
> 
> Best
> Volker van Nek
> 
> 
> 

It works!


No unexpected errors found.
Real time: 528.9933f0 sec.
Run time: 517.1043f0 sec.
Space: 8536911040 Bytes
GC: 4200, GC time: 78.24086f0 sec.
(%i1)

Thanks again
Doug



With more testing I found this
"
(%i4) factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
(%o4) 317 6163 10271 307627 49172195536083790769
                                    3660574762725521461527140564875080461079917
(%i5) factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

 
+: NIL is not a number

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
(%i6) 

"

so after maxima found the first answer I moved the cursor up the the factor line and then hit enter and got the error message.  ( I think  there are 79 ones there)

this is:
(%i6) 
Maxima version: 5.18.1
Maxima build date: 13:17 4/23/2009
host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
lisp-implementation-type: CLISP
lisp-implementation-version: 2.44.1 (2008-02-23) (built on vacskamati [127.0.1.1])

Would someone try this and see what they get please?

Doug Stewart