Dear Johnny san,
Here is what I did and imaxima works fine on this.
1. Install Fedora 17 from live CD image to Virtualbox.
2. Install texlive 2012 by doing the followings:
% sudo rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/texlive-release.noarch.rpm
% sudo yum clean all
% sudo yum install texlive
3. Install emacs and maxima by doing the following:
% sudo yum install emacs maxima
Then put these lines in .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el file:
(autoload 'imaxima "imaxima" "Frontend of Maxima CAS" t)
(autoload 'imath "imath" "Interactive Math mode" t)
(autoload 'imath-mode "imath" "Interactive Math mode" t)
Installation instructions for Fedora on my site for Imaxima and Imath
is also updated to incorporate the above.
I hope this helps you.
Yasuaki Honda, Chiba, Japan
2012/10/21 Johnny <yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk>:
> Hi Yasuaki,
>
> Thanks for your reply and efforts, much appreciated! It seems very
> likely the problem is the additional tex-modules. I took some notes as I
> went along installing, so I'll post these below. (I didn't validate this
> sequence, but it is a good starting point)
>
> Let me know how it goes :)
>
> ,---- INSTALL IMAXIMA and dependencies in Fedora 17
> | 1) Install imaxima with dependencies for use with emacs
> | : yum install emacs maxima sbcl texlive ghostscript gnuplot
> | 2) Switch to the texmf directory (example for local user)
> | : cd ~/texmf/tex/
> | 3) Get mh latex package (for breqn.sty)
> | : wget http://www.ctan.org/get/install/macros/latex/contrib/mh.tds.zip
> | : unzip mh.tds.zip
> | : cd mh
> | : find . -iname "*dtx" -exec tex {} \;
> | : cd ..
> | : rm mh.tds.zip
> | 4) Get l3kernel latex package
> | : wget http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel.zip
> | : unzip l3kernel.zip
> | : cd l3kernel
> | : latex l3.ins
> | : cd ..
> | : rm l3kernel.zip
> | 5) Update tex path
> | : texhash ~/texmf
> | 6) Check the install
> | : kpsewhich breqn.sty expl3.sty
> | This should return the correct paths.
> | 1) If nothing is returned make sure the path where stuff was installed is included in the path
> | : kpsepath tex
> | This should return e.g. in the example above ~/texmf/tex
> `----
>
> Oh, and I tried creating a simple .tex file for testing of breqn and
> expl3 (attached). The former generates an abundance of errors, the
> latter simply:
>
>
>
> ,----
> | LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 48, version
> | `2012/07/15' of package l3names,
> | but only version
> | `1998/04/20 v2.0b L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX Primitives'
> | is available.
> |
> | ! Package expl3 Error: MismatchedLaTeX3packagesdetected..
> `----
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mattias
>
>
> ???? <yasuaki.honda at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Johnny san,
>>
>> This error sometimes happens, but usually that is due to the
>> lack of breqn.sty or related latex packages. But in your case,
>> things seem to be installed correctly,,,,
>>
>> I will try Fedora 17 by myself and will share with you my
>> experiences.
>>
>> Yasuaki Honda, maintaining imaxima and imath
>>
>> 2012/10/19 Johnny <yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am still struggling to get IMaxima in emacs to work (previous thread),
>>> but as this is quite different it was worth a new thread. Fedora 17,
>>> Emacs 24.1.1.
>>>
>>> After installing the required packages according to [1], I start emacs
>>> in Imaxima and get the following:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | (%i1) f(x):=x;
>>> |
>>> | LaTeX error in: f\left(x\right):=x
>>> | (%i2)
>>> `----
>>>
>>> I have checked my installation by running:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | [johnny at elmachina ~]$ yum list emacs maxima sbcl texlive ghostscript gnuplot; kpsewhich breqn.sty expl3.sty
>>> | Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>>> | Installed Packages
>>> | emacs.i686 1:24.1-4.fc17
>>> | ghostscript.i686 9.05-4.fc17
>>> | gnuplot.i686 4.4.4-3.fc17
>>> | maxima.i686 5.27.0-3.fc17
>>> | sbcl.i686 1.0.57-1.fc17
>>> | texlive.i686 2007-70.fc17
>>> | /home/johnny/texmf/tex/mh/breqn.sty
>>> | /home/johnny/texmf/tex/l3kernel/expl3.sty
>>> `----
>>>
>>> And in my emacs .init file I have:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/maxima/5.27.0/emacs/") |
>>> | (autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Maxima mode" t) |
>>> | (autoload 'imaxima "imaxima" "Frontend for maxima with Image support" t) |
>>> | (autoload 'maxima "maxima" "Maxima interaction" t) |
>>> | (autoload 'imath-mode "imath" "Imath mode for math formula input" t) |
>>> | (setq imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag t) |
>>> `----
>>>
>>> What am I missing here?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> Johnny
>>>
>>> Footnotes:
>>> [1] https://sites.google.com/site/imaximaimath/download-and-install
>>>
>>> --
>>> Johnny
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>
> --
> Johnny
>