How To Install maxima-emacs on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-emacs on Kali Linux. maxima-emacs is Computer algebra system – emacs interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-emacs on Kali Linux.

What is maxima-emacs

maxima-emacs 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 a tradition emacs interface, together with a newer imaxima interface supporting inline imaging and HTML export under a specialized imath mode.

There are three methods to install maxima-emacs on Kali Linux. 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-emacs 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-emacs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install maxima-emacs

Install maxima-emacs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install maxima-emacs

Install maxima-emacs Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install maxima-emacs

How To Uninstall maxima-emacs on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove maxima-emacs

Uninstall maxima-emacs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall maxima-emacs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maxima-emacs

Remove maxima-emacs Configurations and Data

To remove maxima-emacs configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge maxima-emacs

Remove maxima-emacs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maxima-emacs

Dependencies

maxima-emacs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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