How To Install maxima-emacs on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-emacs on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-emacs package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
