How To Install maxima on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima on Debian 11. maxima is Computer algebra system – base system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima on Debian 11.

What is maxima

maxima is:

Maxima is a fully symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter methods for finite group analysis, graphing, multiple precision floating point computation. It has a symbolic source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970s. It is quite reliable, and has good garbage collection, and no memory leaks. It comes with hundreds of self tests.

This package contains the main executables and base system files.

There are three methods to install maxima on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install maxima Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install maxima using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install maxima

Install maxima Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install maxima using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install maxima

Install maxima Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install maxima using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install maxima

How To Uninstall maxima on Debian 11

To uninstall only the maxima package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove maxima

Uninstall maxima And Its Dependencies

To uninstall maxima and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maxima

Remove maxima Configurations and Data

To remove maxima configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge maxima

Remove maxima configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove maxima configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maxima

Dependencies

maxima have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.