Information about the package, maxima, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The maxima package is designed for, Symbolic Computation Program.
Package Name:
maxima
Summary:
Symbolic Computation Program
Description:
Maxima is a full symbolic computation program. It is full featured doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats. It has a symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima is based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.23.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
13 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the maxima package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install maxima
This command will install maxima on the server.
yum remove maxima
This command will un-install maxima on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove maxima, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove maxima
This command will un-install maxima on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove maxima when using the -y flag.
yum update maxima
This command will update maxima to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove maxima, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update maxima
This command will update maxima to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove maxima when using the -y flag.
yum info maxima
This command will show you core information about the maxima package.
yum deplist maxima
This command will show you the dependencies for maxima. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update maxima
This command will check if there is an update waiting on maxima. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.