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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, JC Bustamante wrote:
> Sorry if the question seems stupid or if some of you think it's already 
> answered in the
> mailing list... but:
>
> $ /usr/lib/texmacs/TeXmacs/bin/maxima_detect
> gives ("5.13.0 gcl")
> I have texmacs 1.0.6.11 on Ubuntu 8.04
> Running maxima or WXmaxima is Ok. When I try to insert a session inside 
> TeXmacs I got
>     -e ed Unsupported version of maxima: 5.13.0
TeXmacs-1.0.6.11 is too old. Please edit your maxima_detect and tm_maxima 
files (usually they live in /usr/libexec/TeXmacs/bin, don't know about 
Debian-based systems... use locate to find them). maxima_detect should 
contain

        if $MAXIMA --list-avail | grep -F "version 5.9.1
version 5.9.2
version 5.9.3
version 5.10
version 5.11
version 5.12
version 5.13
version 5.14
version 5.15" >/dev/null
        then
          # 5.9.1 or 5.9.2 or 5.9.3 or 5.10 or 5.11 or 5.12 or 5.13 or 5.14 
or 5.15

and tm_maxima should contain

  5.11.* | 5.12.* | 5.13.* | 5.14.* | 5.15.*) exec maxima -u $1 -l $2 -p 
"$TEXMACS_MAXIMA_PATH/texmacs-maxima-5.11.0.lisp";;

So, please, extend (shorter) lists of versions you have in your old 
TeXmacs.

BTW, it is quite easy to compile TeXmacs and maxima from sources, and to 
have up-to-date versions. No need to wait for Debian (&Ubuntu) people.

Andrey