On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jon Peatfield wrote:
BTW we also have (not *too* ancient) Maxima sl5 packages (built with clisp
from DAG) if anyone prefers that over REDUCE.
# yum --enablerepo=epel info maxima
...
Available Packages
Name : maxima
Arch : x86_64
Version: 5.16.3
Release: 4.el5
Size : 15 M
Repo : epel
Summary: Symbolic Computation Program
Description:
Maxima is a full symbolic computation program. It is full featured
doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational
functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats. It has a
symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is
based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's.
...which seems to be the version current on
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
I tend to avoid the epel repo because it's packages (in the past at least)
have tended to pull in a variety of other stuff which isn't *quite*
compatible with what we have/want...
BTW Maxima 5.17.0 was released in December, not that I've had a reason to
upgrade yet...
