On 2013-05-14, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Orright then, how do I install 5.30 on ubuntu?
* fetch maxima-5.xx tarball
* unpack tarball && cd maxima-5.xx
* sh bootstrap
* ./configure --enable-foolisp # where foolisp is a Lisp you have
* make
* make check # runs the test suite
* sudo make install
> My attempts so far (downloading the rpm files, turning them into .deb
> files with alien, then installing those files with dpkg, all with sudo
> of course!), have resulted only in errors.
For the record, what were those errors?
best
Robert Dodier