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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:52:40 +0200
> From: ABDELHAKIM MOUHAMED AHMED ABDELSATTAR
> ? ? ? ?<ahmed.abdelhakim at student.unife.it>
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Installing Maxima on mac ox s 10.4.11 (ppc
> ? ? ? ?processor)
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> Hi,
> I need to install maxima on ibook G4 ppc processor running mac os x 10.4.11.
> I tried installing all the maxima(version).dmg files but (after
> successful download and unraring and copying to the applications
> folder) when I doubleclick the wxmaxima, I get the message ..something
> like ?" ?this application cannot open ...." and when I try to run the
> Maxiam program
> i get the message telling me that the system is not suitable for it.
> If I need to build up maxima from source files...please kindly tell me
> in simple steps what to download -the links- the lines I should type
> in terminal.app because I have no idea about this!
> Thank you so much ...
>
You can build it from source relatively easily, I think, if you have a
lisp. (I get mine via Fink.) The page
http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html has good instructions,
though sometimes I have to do ./bootstrap first (thanks to Barton
Willis for this tip). You don't necessarily have to use CMUCL, but
then you have to do the correct configure command.
Ironically, another way to get Maxima (slightly out of date) for this
platform is to download Sage for this platform, and then use the
command
sage -maxima
to get Maxima. The downside is that it would not come with wxmaxima,
if you are looking for that.
Good luck!