Recently there have been quite a few bugs reported about maxima not
working on Ubuntu. AFAICT, these are not maxima issues, but some kind
of packaging problem in Ubuntu that distributes either a broken gcl or a
broken prebuild maxima using gcl.
Does anyone here use Ubuntu? Can we get Ubuntu to update the package or
remove the faulty package?
It does reflect somewhat poorly on maxima itself, even thought it's not
maxima's fault. Or perhaps we can drop support for gcl and recommend
using something else like ecl. (I'd rather not drop support for gcl,
but we clearly need help from gcl which seems somewhat lacking now,
unfortunately.)
Ray