On 2013-10-15, Mixon, Wilson <wmixon at berry.edu> wrote:
> Any advice regarding using alien to install a Maxima rpm file (e. g.,
> maxima-5.31.3-1.i386.rpm) on Ubuntu or Lubuntu?
I have installed Maxima rpms via alien with only the --install option
and it seems to work as expected. I get a warning message about pre-
and post-installation scripts not being executed, but I tried --scripts
once and ran into some kind of error. Oh, also, .info files installed
via alien end up compressed, but Maxima expects them to be uncompressed.
Just go to /usr/share/info and gunzip them.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier