Installing Maxima on MacOS X

[Jorge Calvo]

Hello. I know that a couple of people have asked about this recently, but I am still confused. I tried looking at Stuart Schmitt's page (http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html) for help, but I can't tell which steps apply to the new install method (from the latest .dmg file) and which apply only to the old install method (from the .tar.gz files).

Here is where I am at:
1. I have the downloaded CMUCL and it appears to be running correctly.
2. I have downloaded and expanded the latest .dmg file.
3. I have copied maxima.app, wxMaxima.app, and Gnuplot.app to the Aplications folder.

I suppose this means that I am done with step 6 in Scmitt's instructions, but I don't know how to interpret the commands in the next step. In particular, I get errors when I try to "configure" and "make".

Thanks for your assistance!

Jorge

[Javier Arantegui]

Hi!

I wrote a guide to install Maxima and wxMaxima in a Mac OS X machine
some weeks ago. The steps are quite easy to follow (if you can
understand Spanish...). The guide is here:

http://www.faq-mac.mobi/41547/instalacion-maximawxmaxima-mac-javier-arantegui

I hope it helps.

Javier

Hello.  I know that a couple of people have asked about this recently, but I am still confused.  I tried looking at Stuart Schmitt's page (http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html) for help, but I can't tell which steps apply to the new install method (from the latest .dmg file) and which apply only to the old install method (from the .tar.gz files).
1. I have the downloaded CMUCL and it appears to be running correctly.
2. I have downloaded and expanded the latest .dmg file.
3. I have copied maxima.app, wxMaxima.app, and Gnuplot.app to the Aplications folder.
I suppose this means that I am done with step 6 in Scmitt's instructions, but I don't know how to interpret the commands in the next step.  In particular, I get errors when I try to "configure" and "make".
Thanks for your assistance!
Jorge
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[Jorge Calvo]

Many thanks, Javier. Your instructions have filled me with hope.

However, I am still stuck at the stage when I'm supposed to run wxMaxima for the first time. I get an error message saying that wxMaxima is not supported in this system. Also, the icon for wxMaxima is different than what appears in your screen shots -- on my mac there is a big circle with a slash through it, as in a "do not enter" sign. I wonder if there is a list of system requirements that I missed.

I am running Mac OS X v.10.4.11 and trying to use wxMaxima v.0.8.5.

Do I need to go to an earlier version of wxMaxima?

Thanks again,

Jorge

-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Arantegui [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Wed 5/25/2011 6:33 PM
To: Jorge Calvo
Cc: ***@math.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Installing Maxima on MacOS X

Hi!

I wrote a guide to install Maxima and wxMaxima in a Mac OS X machine
some weeks ago. The steps are quite easy to follow (if you can
understand Spanish...). The guide is here:

http://www.faq-mac.mobi/41547/instalacion-maximawxmaxima-mac-javier-arantegui

I hope it helps.

Javier

Hello.  I know that a couple of people have asked about this recently, but I am still confused.  I tried looking at Stuart Schmitt's page (http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html) for help, but I can't tell which steps apply to the new install method (from the latest .dmg file) and which apply only to the old install method (from the .tar.gz files).
1. I have the downloaded CMUCL and it appears to be running correctly.
2. I have downloaded and expanded the latest .dmg file.
3. I have copied maxima.app, wxMaxima.app, and Gnuplot.app to the Aplications folder.
I suppose this means that I am done with step 6 in Scmitt's instructions, but I don't know how to interpret the commands in the next step.  In particular, I get errors when I try to "configure" and "make".
Thanks for your assistance!
Jorge
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[Javier Arantegui]

Dear Jorge,

Are you using a PPC Mac? As far I know the compiled version of
wxMaxima is intel only. In that case, a possible solution could be to
compile it yourself using Fink. It takes some time to do it but it's
not very difficult.

Yours,

Javier

Many thanks, Javier.  Your instructions have filled me with hope.
However, I am still stuck at the stage when I'm supposed to run wxMaxima for the first time.  I get an error message saying that wxMaxima is not supported in this system.  Also, the icon for wxMaxima is different than what appears in your screen shots -- on my mac there is a big circle with a slash through it, as in a "do not enter" sign.  I wonder if there is a list of system requirements that I missed.
I am running Mac OS X v.10.4.11 and trying to use wxMaxima v.0.8.5.
Do I need to go to an earlier version of wxMaxima?
Thanks again,
Jorge
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wed 5/25/2011 6:33 PM
To: Jorge Calvo
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Installing Maxima on MacOS X
Hi!
I wrote a guide to install Maxima and wxMaxima in a Mac OS X machine
some weeks ago. The steps are quite easy to follow (if you can
http://www.faq-mac.mobi/41547/instalacion-maximawxmaxima-mac-javier-arantegui
I hope it helps.
Javier

Hello.  I know that a couple of people have asked about this recently, but I am still confused.  I tried looking at Stuart Schmitt's page (http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html) for help, but I can't tell which steps apply to the new install method (from the latest .dmg file) and which apply only to the old install method (from the .tar.gz files).
1. I have the downloaded CMUCL and it appears to be running correctly.
2. I have downloaded and expanded the latest .dmg file.
3. I have copied maxima.app, wxMaxima.app, and Gnuplot.app to the Aplications folder.
I suppose this means that I am done with step 6 in Scmitt's instructions, but I don't know how to interpret the commands in the next step.  In particular, I get errors when I try to "configure" and "make".
Thanks for your assistance!
Jorge
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[Arne Schmitz]

Post by Javier Arantegui
Are you using a PPC Mac? As far I know the compiled version of
wxMaxima is intel only. In that case, a possible solution could be to
compile it yourself using Fink. It takes some time to do it but it's
not very difficult.

I am using MacPorts for installing and updating wxMaxima and Maxima. That should also work on PPC, I think. Furthermore it is very actively maintained. I think Fink is usually a bit older. YMMV
Both compile from source and as such will take some time and hard disk space.

Best regards,

Arne

[Richard Fateman]

You do know that it is entirely unnecessary to do this if you just want
to just run maxima on a Mac OS-X system?
visit

http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/5.26.0-MacOSX/

You can also add to this version online, interactively, by loading in
lisp code.

RJF

Post by Jorge Calvo
Hello. I know that a couple of people have asked about this recently, but I am still confused. I tried looking at Stuart Schmitt's page (http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html) for help, but I can't tell which steps apply to the new install method (from the latest .dmg file) and which apply only to the old install method (from the .tar.gz files).
1. I have the downloaded CMUCL and it appears to be running correctly.
2. I have downloaded and expanded the latest .dmg file.
3. I have copied maxima.app, wxMaxima.app, and Gnuplot.app to the Aplications folder.
I suppose this means that I am done with step 6 in Scmitt's instructions, but I don't know how to interpret the commands in the next step. In particular, I get errors when I try to "configure" and "make".
Thanks for your assistance!
Jorge
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[Stavros Macrakis]

RJF,

Did you read my original posting? That is how I installed Maxima on my
Mac. But only the wxMaxima app is installed in the Applications folder
when you do that (which may lead to users thinking that wxMaxima = Maxima).
There is a shell file that purportedly runs XMaxima, but it currently has
a bug (and in any case is not installed as a Mac application). There is
also a shell file that runs command-line Maxima. Both of these are buried
in the Application Resources folder and as far as I can tell not documented
anywhere.

-s

You do know that it is entirely unnecessary to do this if you just want to
just run maxima on a Mac OS-X system?
visit
http://sourceforge.net/**projects/maxima/files/Maxima-**
MacOS/5.26.0-MacOSX/<http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/5.26.0-MacOSX/>
You can also add to this version online, interactively, by loading in lisp
code.
RJF

Post by Jorge Calvo
Hello. I know that a couple of people have asked about this recently,
but I am still confused. I tried looking at Stuart Schmitt's page (
http://pangea.stanford.edu/~**schmitt/maxima.html<http://pangea.stanford.edu/~schmitt/maxima.html>)
for help, but I can't tell which steps apply to the new install method
(from the latest .dmg file) and which apply only to the old install method
(from the .tar.gz files).
1. I have the downloaded CMUCL and it appears to be running correctly.
2. I have downloaded and expanded the latest .dmg file.
3. I have copied maxima.app, wxMaxima.app, and Gnuplot.app to the Aplications folder.
I suppose this means that I am done with step 6 in Scmitt's instructions,
but I don't know how to interpret the commands in the next step. In
particular, I get errors when I try to "configure" and "make".
Thanks for your assistance!
Jorge
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[Raymond Toy]

Post by Stavros Macrakis
RJF,
Did you read my original posting? That is how I installed Maxima on my
Mac. But only the wxMaxima app is installed in the Applications folder
when you do that (which may lead to users thinking that wxMaxima = Maxima).
There is a shell file that purportedly runs XMaxima, but it currently has
a bug (and in any case is not installed as a Mac application). There is
also a shell file that runs command-line Maxima. Both of these are buried
in the Application Resources folder and as far as I can tell not documented
anywhere.

I have never used the installer, but I presume it's meant that you use
wxMaxima (which I have also never used).

I just install my favorite lisp(s) somewhere, build from source, and run
maxima-local inside a shell window in xemacs. Perhaps not the best user
interface, but at at least M-p and M-r will bring back previous inputs
easily.

(The shell mode gets confused by maxima's prompt and things with factorials
(!) confuse it too since ! is a csh shortcut of some kind.)

Ray