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 > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org >
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