On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 at 05:44AM -0800, Alex Lara wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> You are totally right. The problem is that Sage can't start maxima.
> Here is part of the output when I typed
> 
> sage: var('x k w')
> (x, k, w)
> sage: f = x^3 * e^(k*x) * sin(w*x); f
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call
> last)
> ...
> RuntimeError: Unable to start maxima
> 
> So, I guess I need to fix this first (how I don't know). right?

I'm not quite sure what to do, but an obvious first step is to try
reinstalling the Maxima spkg. Try

  sage -f http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/maxima-5.16.3.spkg

and see if that fixes things.

Dan

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