How To Install maxima-sage-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install maxima-sage-doc on Kali Linux. maxima-sage-doc is Computer algebra system – documentation

Introduction

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

What is maxima-sage-doc

maxima-sage-doc 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.

The maxima-sage packages are meant to be used together with SageMath. They contain the version of Maxima that works together with the SageMath version in Debian and use ECL instead of GCL as Lisp compiler. To use Maxima by itself, the more complete and up-to-date maxima package is recommended.

This package contains most of the documentation.

There are three methods to install maxima-sage-doc 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-sage-doc 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-sage-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install maxima-sage-doc

Install maxima-sage-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install maxima-sage-doc

Install maxima-sage-doc 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-sage-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install maxima-sage-doc

How To Uninstall maxima-sage-doc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove maxima-sage-doc

Uninstall maxima-sage-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maxima-sage-doc

Remove maxima-sage-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge maxima-sage-doc

Remove maxima-sage-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maxima-sage-doc

Dependencies

maxima-sage-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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