How To Install maxima on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima
on CentOS 7.
What is maxima
Maxima is a full symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats. It has a symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970’s.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install maxima
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install maxima.
Install maxima on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install maxima
using yum
by running the following command:
Install maxima on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install maxima
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall maxima on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the maxima
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.