Does anyone have maxima working on Fedora Core 6?
Arthur Dickinson
adickinson at cfl.rr.com
Sat Sep 15 02:18:41 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 00:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 15/09/2007, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >
> > > > > I fire up xmaxima and the startup hangs.
> > > >
> > > > WORKSFORME, but I'm on f7.
> > >
> > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repoview/maxima-gui.html
> > >
> > > There's still the older release. Does that one work?
> > >
> > > And did xmaxima work when tested for FC6?
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > I cannot downgrade to the older version,
>
> 1.) For downgrades you need to add the --oldpackage option.
>
> > [root at localhost Downloads]# rpm -Uvh maxima-gui-5.12.0-3.fc6.i386.rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> > maxima = 5.12.0-3.fc6 is needed by maxima-gui-5.12.0-3.fc6.i386
>
> 2.) maxima and maxima-gui are built from the same source rpm, so
> certainly you can downgrade by giving rpm multiple packages at once:
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repoview/M.group.html
>
It may be worth checking /etc/hosts to make sure that 127.0.0.1 is still
defined. Check Bugzilla for problems with the hosts file.
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Arthur Dickinson <adickinson at cfl.rr.com>
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