a recent maxima / wxmaxima version

Stefan Lesicnik stefan at lsd.co.za
Tue Jun 9 08:55:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Nagy Viktor <viktor.nagy at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I would like to see a recent maxima/wxmaxima version to be added to a
> (still open) repo
>
> the latest maxima version is 5.17: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
> the latest in ANY of the repos is 5.13
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=maxima
> the Debian package of 5.17 installs and runs fine:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/maxima
>
> my favourite GUI wxmaxima has plenty of improvements that need maxima at
> least 5.17: http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/
> there are wxmaxima versions available for maxima 5.17 on
> http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/linux/ <http://zeus.nyf.hu/%7Eblahota/linux/>
> * the version (0.8.2) for ubuntu 9.04 does not run on my hardy with 5.17
> maxima from debian
> * the version (0.8.1) for ubuntu 8.10 DOES RUN  on my hardy with 5.17
> maxima from debian
>
> Thus I would like to see an ubuntu version of maxima 5.17 in Jaunty or
> Karmic (the earliest possible) and a corresponding wxmaxima (0.8.1 or 0.8.2)
> as well.
> After that I'll be happy to help its backporting to hardy.
>

There is a merge for this and a bug open re. a segfault during the build.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maxima/+bug/296643


Stefan
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