Can anyone help me install STACK?

Can anyone help me install STACK?

by Robert 2017 -
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Can anyone help me install STACK?

I am using the bitnami moodle for virtual box. 

I installed maxima 5.34.1 and gnuplot

I followed the instructions here: https://github.com/maths/moodle-qtype_stack/blob/master/doc/en/Installation/index.md

I got this in the health check:

CAS result

Maxima 5.34.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.12 (a.k.a. GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) 
file_search1: eval_string not found in file_search_maxima,file_search_lisp.
#0: stack_reset(rand_seed=1000)(stackmaxima.mac line 54)
 -- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);
(%i1) 
[TimeStamp= [ 0 ], Locals= [ 0=[ error= [ 
1=[ error= [ 
2=[ error= [ 
3=[ error= [ 
] ] 
(%o1) true
(%i2)

I tried installing a later version of maxima but couldn't figure out how to get the system to install all the dependencies. I download a deb and use dpkg, then I copied the deb into /var/cache/apt/archives but apt still wouldn't install it. 

Now I am stuck smile

Thanks for reading!

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Re: Can anyone help me install STACK?

by Christopher Sangwin -
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Robert,

I suggest you try removing the optional libraries from the "Load optional Maxima libraries" (qtype_stack | maximalibraries) settings in the STACK page.  Some of the versions of Maxima didn't ship with these.  They will affect some of the statistics functions which some question authors use, but not the core functionality.

Chris





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Re: Can anyone help me install STACK?

by Robert 2017 -

Thanks Chris. I tried removing the libraries but it didn't work. 

I grabbed part of the code and tried executing it manually from the maxima prompt and got this:


(%i3) cte("CASresult",errcatch(diff(x^n,x)));

                                                                n - 1

(%o3)                     cte(CASresult, [n x     ])


Looks to me like the cte function isn't working. I'm guessing that's a part of STACK? If so, would that mean STACK didn't install itself properly?

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