Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jomazq]

after installing and enjoying mathomatic and yacas, i thought i'd try something with a gui. should i re download the pets? or is there something else to do ?

[emil]

Which puppy version are you using?
EDIT: Oh I saw from the screenshots its Pupeee ...

The package for maxima (with wxmaxima GUI) were made and tested in Puppy 431. It is not guaranteed that they work in newer puppy versions.

if I recall correctly I needed the following pets for maxima
gcl-2.6.7-i486.pet
maxima-5.2.0-i486.pet
wxGTK-2.8.9-unicode.pet
wxMaxima-0.8.2-i386.pet

I have them at
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/MathSoftware/Puppy4/Maxima/

The packages for Puppy 5 series might need an update.

maxima is also contained in every sage package. If you install sage and do
sage -sh
you will call a sage subshell.
from there you can start maxima with
maxima
I have not tried to install a maxima gui into the sage subshell yet, but it should be possible.
emil

[jomazq]

thanks for the clue emil

i really appreciate all the stuff you've put together. i'd like to get around to doing that stuff for puppy - as it's been so kind to me.

kept me going in school when my hdd failed. i literally haven't had the money to replace a simple 2.5 inch hdd - and i've been able to write papers and take notes all along. and play freecell

in any case if i'm running a newer and or different puppeee 4.4RC2 should i just try and make each of the pets? maybe just the lisp package?

i will take a run at the sage package, and see if that works..

[emil]

Have you tried to run gcl from the commandline?
Does it work?

If gcl doesn't work It might pay off to try to compile a version for your pupeee
(use ./configure --enable-ansi)

Installing the full sage package is a bit heavy,
There is a version I compiled for Puppy 431:
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/SageSFS/sage431_latex.sfs
(400 MB!) There is a fair chance that it works in Pupeee.

If that doesn't work, you have to compile the package, but the build scripts are very good, usually it works out smooth in puppy - probably you will need to install gfortran.

good luck, maybe you keep us posted if you have success!
emil

[emil]

@jomazq,

I advised you to try to recompile gcl - well, I tried to do this for the new slacko RC, but it proofed to be rather difficult and I had to solve some unusual obstacles. Sorry for sending you on such a difficult mission.

If you are still interested in this topic here is the link to the compiling section where I posted package and build script.

After having gcl I try to get maxima working in slacko RC
Take care, emil