[LON-CAPA-admin] yum update

[Peter Riegler]

Hi,

my guess is: Not the package name has changed, but the lisp interpreter 
your maxima uses by default.

gcl = gnu common lisp
sbcl = steel bank common lisp

maxima is written in lisp, but the user can decide which lisp to use.

loncapa takes whichever lisp is set as default. To find out which one 
this is, call maxima from a shell:

[pr at polya ~]# maxima
Maxima 5.11.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp SBCL 1.0.4
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) quit();
[pr at polya ~]#

Use quit(); to leave maxima.

 From the best of my knowlegde (and imagination) maxima problems should 
not depend on the lisp you use.

If you need a maxima problem for testing use e.g.
/res/fhwf/riegler/Mathematik/Analysis/Integration/integration-sin-lazyauthor.problem
It askes you to enter the antiderivative of the given function.

Hope this helps

Peter


H.K. Ng wrote:

> Hi, I guess one question is whether the cas problems work since one of 
> the maxima packages name has changed, from maxima-runtime-gcl to 
> maxima-runtime-sbcl. I haven't got any maxima problems to test it on. -hk
> 
> At 10:12 PM 7/11/2008, you wrote:
> 
>> H.K. Ng wrote:
>> > yum update on fc 8 seems to complain about a missing dependency
>> >
>> > Error: Missing Dependency: maxima = 5.14.0 is needed by package
>> > maxima-runtime-gcl
>> >
>> > However,
>> >
>> > rpm -qa | grep maxima
>> > maxima-runtime-gcl-5.14.0-4.fc8
>> > maxima-5.14.0-4.fc8
>> >
>> > shows that both are installed. On the development machine I removed
>> > both packages and LONCAPA-prerequisites and did a yum update and
>> > then
>> > reinstalled LONCAPA-prerequisites but then it did not install the
>> > same maxima packages. Instead
>> >
>> > maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.15.0-1.fc8
>> > maxima-5.15.0-1.fc8
>> >
>> > were installed. Has anyone else run into this problem?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > -hk
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few days ago, I updated our Fedora 8 servers with yum. I
>> was offered
>> maxima 5.15.0 packages which I could install without any problems.
>>
>> Do you still have problems with missing dependencies or are you asking
>> if it was ok to let the system install the 5.15.0 packages?
>>
>> Stefan Bisitz
>>
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