Installation problem: cannot run maxima (MacBook)

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Tong Zhu <dmitry.zhu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can install maxima, gnuplot and wxMaxima with no error messages.
> However, I have trouble running maxima in the Terminal. Below are the
> messages I have:
>
> Maxima 5.26.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp CMU Common Lisp 20a (20A Unicode)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
>
>
> then I tried to test it with 1+1
>
> (%i1) 1+1
>
>
> If you are running from the command line, then you need to add a semicolon:

1 + 1;

 If you're using wxMaxima, I don't know since I don't use that.

It stopped there with no response at al. It happens both on my Mac (intel
> duo core) and Linux (Fedora) machines. I have also tried a few different
> combinations of various versions of CMUCL and Maxima. It did not solve the
> problem. The only version of CMUCL I had not tried was *19d. *I believe
> it is the one that should work but I could not find the source file for
> x86-darwin machine. The funnies part was that I used to have maxima and
> wxMaxima working perfectly fine on my Mac but after I upgraded the system
> from Tiger to Snow Leopard, I could never run maxima anymore...
>

I regularly run maxima with cmucl on Snow Leopard.  Works fine.

Ray