sage -maxima

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, zteitler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to run Maxima. Right now I'm using Sage only as a launcher for
> Maxima; it's a little bit crazy. (In the future I expect to use Sage
> for other things, but not at this moment.) I can try to build Maxima
> (first I'll need to get Lisp installed...) which is what I expect to
> end up doing.
>
> However before I do that I want to ask about directly launching the
> Maxima that's installed with Sage, given that my sysadmins have kindly
> installed Sage for me. (This question is partly out of curiosity, and
> partly out of laziness---if I can skip installing Lisp and Maxima,
> great; if not, I'll survive!)
>
> I clearly can't just run /path/to/maxima --- it doesn't find its
> libraries:
>
> -bash-3.2$ pwd
> /apps/sage-4.2.1
> -bash-3.2$ ./local/bin/maxima
> /apps/sage-4.2.1/local/lib/maxima/5.19.1/binary-ecl/maxima: error
> while loading shared libraries: libecl.so.9.10: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> There is no problem launching Maxima from within Sage. So there should
> be command-line options to help maxima find the libraries it needs; or
> some environment variable set by Sage. If anyone could point that out
> to me I'd appreciate it. Again, it's not urgent, rather for my own
> curiosity. Thanks.
>
> Zach
>
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University of Washington
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