Installing/updating Maxima and wxMaxima to 5.27 and 12.04, respectively

It had been awhile since I had used wxMaxima/Maxima on my desktop, and I was getting an error when I was trying to run calculations that wxMaxima was not connected to Maxima.  I began to search for a solution then decided to check the version.  A newer version had of course come out for Maxima-xMaxima as 5.27 and wxMaxima as 12.04.  I decide that upgrading would be easier and more logical than trying to fix the old version I had.

First, I removed the old version.  You can probably do this through through SPM, the terminal, or (what I did) USC.  Then add the repository from blahota on launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/~blahota/+archive/wxmaxima/

apt-add-repository ppa:blahota/wxmaxima


I already had this added from an older version upgrade.  Then run update to update the repositories:

sudo apt-get update


Then install wxMaxima and Maxima either through the terminal (not sure of the exact command; probably something like sudo apt-get install maxima or whatever the file name is), USC, or (what I did) through SPM.  I just selected what I wanted to install.

Maxima and wxMaxima in Windows 7

I am forced to use Windows every now and then, but I have recently found out that some of my favorite software works for Windows and is relatively easy to install.  Maxima is very easy, as you just download and run the Windows installer from here:  http://www.windows7download.com/win7-maxima/kqcjkmcz.html

Installing Maxima for Windows also installs wxMaxima (and Xmaxima if wanted) and gnuplot.  Here is a screenshot.

Xmaxima

Xmaxima is a graphical interface for Maxima, written in Tcl/Tk. It also provides the openmath plotting program for Maxima, which can do some of the plots done by Maxima's default plotter (gnuplot) and a few more that gnuplot cannot do.

This manual was written for version 5.11.0 of Xmaxima. Some familiarity with Maxima 5.11.0 is assumed. There is a separate reference manual for Maxima, which can be browsed and studied from Xmaxima.

This is apparently installed by default when you install Maxima from the USC.

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