Thank you, Mike and William!
Zach

On Mar 16, 12:06 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> sage -maxima
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> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, zteitler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
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> > 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!)
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> > I clearly can't just run /path/to/maxima --- it doesn't find its
> > libraries:
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> > -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
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> > 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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