Does anyone have maxima working on Fedora Core 6?

[Rex Dieter]

Antonio Olivares wrote:

> I have a fully updated Fedora Core 6 machine with all the updates.  Maxima
> is not working.
> 
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa maxima*
> maxima-5.13.0-4.fc6
> maxima-gui-5.13.0-4.fc6
> maxima-runtime-gcl-5.13.0-4.fc6
> [olivares at localhost ~]$
> 
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.4-45.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Aug 21 18:29:10 EDT
> 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [olivares at localhost ~]$
> 
> 
> I know that Fedora Core 6 is approaching the time of its slow death, but
> it was working previously.  Is anyone also having this trouble?
> 
> I fire up xmaxima and the startup hangs.  

WORKSFORME, but I'm on f7.  Regardless, I'd recommend using wxMaxima over
xmaxima, it's a much nicer gui for using maxima.

-- Rex