I compiled with sbcl, which apparently doesn't support readline. I'll
recompile with another lisp. Any recommendations?
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you! Well, I've compiled it as above - and it works fine. For the
> record:
>
> (%i1) t(x):=taylor(f(x),x,a,10)$
>
> (%i2) integrate(t(x),x,a,a+h);
>
> produces the result instantly.
>
> All I need to find out now is how to get the history mechanism to work (so
> that I can recall previous commands) in a linux shell, and how to get it to
> play nicely with imaxima in emacs. Currently I get "LaTeX error in:
> \mbox{\tt\red(\mathrm{\%o1}) \black}..." type errors. Actually, I've just
> discovered that the arrow keys don't work in Maxima in a shell.
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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