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  • From: Jan Brosius <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Cc: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] What to do to make maxima work
  • Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 14:47:44 +0200

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 13:05 +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Jan Brosius wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 22:21 +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Jan Brosius wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>I have installed maxima on system.
> >>>How can I start an interactive session with maxima?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Insert->Session->Maxima
> >>
> >>If you don't see maxima in the menu Insert->Session, it
> >>is probably because the command 'maxima' is not available
> >>in your path. Otherwise, it should work.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I have done this , but when I enter anything, e.g. Enter , then the
> >whole window disappears.
> >
> >
> >
> You mean the whole TeXmacs window ? Then it is probably
> a Maxima crash. If you could bring us more info about
> that (e.g. TeXmacs console output, in particular), it
> would allow us to understand more things about what's
> happening.
>
>
This is what I get in the TeXmacs window

ed Unsupported version of maxima: 5.9.3
maxima]

If I then press Enter the whole Texmacs window disappears .

But in a terminal window I get this

[Jan@localhost ~]$ maxima
Maxima 5.9.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) integrate(x^2,x);
3
x
(%o1) --
3
(%i2)

I am using Fedora Core 5 , 64 bit and the maxima program was installed
with
yum install maxima





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