maxima: System for manipulating symbolic and numerical expressions - Packages and Features

Skip to content
Back to top
View this page
Edit this page

# maxima: System for manipulating symbolic and numerical expressions

## Description

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

For more information, see the Maxima web site

http://maxima.sourceforge.net

## License

Maxima is distributed under the GNU General Public License, with some export restrictions from the U.S. Department of Energy. See the file COPYING.

## Upstream Contact

- The Maxima mailing list - see http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html

## Special Update/Build Instructions

1. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-source/ and download the source tarball maxima-x.y.z.tar.gz; place it in the upstream/ directory.

2. Update package-version.txt and run ‘sage –package fix-checksum’.

3. Make sure the patches still apply cleanly, and update them if necessary.

4. Test the resulting package.

All patch files in the patches/ directory are applied. Descriptions of these patches are either in the patch files themselves or below.

- infodir.patch: Correct the path to the Info directory. Introduced in Issue #11348 (maxima test fails when install tree is moved).

## Type

standard

## Dependencies

- ecl: An implementation of the Common Lisp language

- info: stand-alone Info documentation reader

## Version Information

package-version.txt:

    5.47.0

## Equivalent System Packages

Arch Linux

    $ sudo pacman -S maxima-fas

conda-forge

    $ conda install maxima

Debian/Ubuntu

    $ sudo apt-get install maxima-sage maxima

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

    $ sudo dnf install maxima-runtime-ecl maxima

FreeBSD

    $ sudo pkg install math/maxima

Gentoo Linux

    $ sudo emerge sci-mathematics/maxima\[-sbcl\,-clozurecl\,-clozurecl64\,-gcl\,-clisp\,ecl\]

Homebrew

    $ brew install maxima

MacPorts

    $ sudo port install maxima

Nixpkgs

    $ nix-env --install maxima-ecl

openSUSE

    $ sudo zypper install maxima-exec-clisp

Void Linux

    $ sudo xbps-install maxima-ecl

See https://repology.org/project/maxima/versions, https://repology.org/project/maxima-ecl/versions, https://repology.org/project/maxima-sage/versions

If the system package is installed, `./configure` will check if it can be used.