I made a fink package for OS X out of the 5.9pre tarball a while ago.
It's buggy under certain window systems, but works. Fink is a
debian-like package management system for OS X. Once you have installed
fink, you install maxima by doing "fink install maxima". Go to
http://fink.sourceforge.net/ for details (I mentioned all this on this
list a while ago).
Or, you could wait for the official 5.9 release. I have compiled the
5.9.0rc1-1 successfully on OS X 10.2, and it works almost perfectly
(still some strange behaviour under the OroborOSX window manager, but
works fine under icewm with XDarwin, for example). When the official
release is made, I'll updgrade the fink package.
Regards,
Bill McCallum
On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 05:52 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Fre, 2002-09-06 at 09:18, Laurence I. Gould wrote:
I've been a Macsyma user for years but, as far as I know, Debian
maxima is
the only version of that software package that's now available.
Is there anyone out there who has downloaded and run Debian maxima on
a Mac
G4 running OS X? If so I would be grateful to know details of how it
can
be done. (I would also be grateful for any suggestions.)
Not sure what you mean - you can run Debian GNU/Linux on any G4 Mac,
but
you can't run the Debian version of Maxima in OS X. Maybe Maxima could
be ported to OS X relatively easy though.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc)
developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software
enthusiast
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