Installation problem: cannot run maxima (MacBook)

It certainly does work... Thank you so much Raymond. I am hitting against
the wall right now... Well at least that mean almost all versions of CMUCL
works well with maxima...

Best,

Tong Zhu

On 6 March 2012 08:13, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Tong Zhu <dmitry.zhu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> then I tried to test it with 1+1
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>> (%i1) 1+1
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>>
>> If you are running from the command line, then you need to add a
> semicolon:
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> 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...
>>
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> I regularly run maxima with cmucl on Snow Leopard.  Works fine.
>
> Ray
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