forgot to include maxima list in my reply...
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Subject: Re: [Maxima] [maxima] xmaxima local start-up
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:17:55 -0700
From: Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com>
To: Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk>
On 05/12/2011 03:07 AM, Leo Butler wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 May 2011, Paul Bowyer wrote:
>
> < Hello list:
> <
> < I have maxima-5.23.2 installed on my PCLinuxOS system, callable from
> < "/usr/bin/xmaxima"
> < and I just used git to download and install maxima-5-24post to ~/MaximaTest
> < where it created:
> < ~/MaximaTest/bin
> < ~/MaximaTest/lib
> < ~/MaximaTest/libexec
> < ~/MaximaTest/share
> <
> < If I cd to ~/MaximaTest/bin and run ./maxima -l<lisp> , I am able to run the
> < local copy of maxima-5-24post in a shell and it finds and uses the lisp
> < dialect I provide.
> <
> < If I cd to ~/MaximaTest/bin and run ./xmaxima -l<lisp>, it calls xmaxima for
> < maxima-5-23-2 and will not allow me to run the local copy of xmaxima.
>
> If you are typing ./xmaxima, then this must be the script in $PWD.
> Do you mean that this script is calling maxima-5-23-2 or did you
> type 'xmaxima' and omit the leading './' ?
>
> <
> < I tried:
> < export PATH="~/MaximaTest/bin;~/MaximaTest/lib;~/MaximaTest/libexec;"$PATH
>
> I don't know if this will fix your problem, but the individual paths
> should be separated by colons, not semi-colons.
>
> Leo
>
>
Thank you again, Leo.
I failed to notice the semi-colons in my PATH prefix. How silly of me...
That solved my problem.
Paul