Installation process of maxima on Ubuntu (tested on 16.04)

maxima.md

Steps to install maxima

1. Run if already installed previous. sudo apt-get --purge remove maxima I was getting this error below cause I already had it some how installed. I can't remember how I initially installed it.

Setting up maxima (5.44.0-2) ...
chown: invalid user: ‘vttoth:vttoth’
chown: invalid user: ‘vttoth:vttoth’
dpkg: error processing package maxima (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wxmaxima:
 wxmaxima depends on maxima (>= 5.37); however:
  Package maxima is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package wxmaxima (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 maxima
 wxmaxima
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2. Install maxima CLI with sudo apt install maxima.

3. Then run in the terminal maxima.

GUI installation (wxmaxima)

1. Run sudo apt install wxmaxima. I ran this after I had already installed maxima CLI.