Maxima Installation Error

Maxima Installation Error

by James Choi -
Number of replies: 9

The following is the files I have and the command I ran in Bluehost VPS server account, and the error messages I got.   I followed instructions on the Maxima's Source Forge site but this is what I got. 

Could someone point me to the right direction so that I can try using STACK?  I looks like I need to have one more rpm file but I am not sure which one.  Thank you.

[xxxxx@server maxima]$ ls
maxima-5.33.0-1.i386.rpm
maxima-xmaxima-5.33.0-1.i386.rpm
maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386.rpm

[xxxxx@server maxima]$ rpm -ivh maxima-5.33.0-1.i386.rpm maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:
        libavcall.so.0 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.15) is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386
        libcallback.so.0 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386
        libreadline.so.5 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386
        libsigsegv.so.2 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386
        libtinfo.so.5 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.33.0-1.i386

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Re: Maxima Installation Error

by James Choi -

I just found out the OS is CentOS 6.5.

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Re: Maxima Installation Error

by Tim Hunt -
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I am not an expert at adminstering CentOS. (In fact I am almost a complete amateur.) However, I think you sould be using yum to install maxima, rather than rpm. yum will manage all the dependencies for you.

https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-managing-packages.html

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Re: Maxima Installation Error

by Joshua Bragg -

You'll want to install the EPEL repository and enable it.  Maxima isn't in the standard CentOS repositories.  Then you can use yum just as Tim suggested.

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Re: Maxima Installation Error

by James Choi -

Thank you both Justin and Tim.  I will give Yum a try.

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回應: Re: Maxima Installation Error

by C Li -

Hi, I'm having difficulties installing Maxima in CentOS as well.

The Maxima I've installed via yum is of version 5.23.2, which isn't supported by STACK (it needs Maxima 5.25.1 to 5.31.3).

I'm new to CentOS. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve the problem?

Thanks.

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Re: 回應: Re: Maxima Installation Error

by Joshua Bragg -

5.23.2 is supported. I'm doing it right now. It is an option to select in the STACK options. I had the same question and Tim Hunt assured me that it was ok. 

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Re: Re: Re: Maxima Installation Error

by C Li -

Thanks for your reply, Joshua!

Somehow I still couldn't connect to Maxima. Are you using STACK 3.0?

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Re: Re: Re: Maxima Installation Error

by Tim Hunt -
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The latest version of STACK is 3.2. I strongly recommend using that.

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Re: Re: Re: Maxima Installation Error

by Joshua Bragg -

My only problems getting things connected was to extend the timeout and make sure that the maxima path was in the openbasedir directive in PHP. The healthcheck page would tell you if maxima timed out. Your server error logs would tell you about the openbasedir issue. 

I would second Tim's comment about using the latest version. 

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