This is my installation guide for MacOS. If you’re looking for Windows, see For MacOS Grab the newest stable versionat this writing that’s.note that there’s a newer version in the download directory — 5.40 — but I haven’t been able to make that work on my Mac.

Below is what you see when you open the installer. The first three steps are easy, the fourth requires a bit of patience:. drag Maxima to the Applications folder. drag wxMaxima to the Applications folder. drag Gnuplot to the Applications folder (If you have an old machine with Core 2 duo skip this and see the instructions at the bottom of this post). open the jsMath TeX fonts folder, and click on the six font files one at a time.

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Each time a window will appear, inviting you to click and install that font. Salt lake city movies theatres : free dvd converter for mac. Next up, you can navigate to your Applications folder and open wxMaxima. In the wxMaxima window, try a command (try 2+2 SHIFT ENTER).

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If nothing happens or you get an error message, you’ll need to tell the program where to find your newly installed copy of Maxima. Go to wxMaxima — Preferences — Maxima, click open, and navigate to the Applications folder and double click on the Maxima icon At that point, You can execute Maxima commands (try 2+2 SHIFT ENTER). How to configure plotting: Plotting probably won’t work correctly right out of the box. Try copying and pasting this onto the wxMaxima command line, followed by SHIFT ENTER: wxplot2d(sin(x),x,0,10); If you get an error like the one above, two last things need to be done: First, go to wxMaxima — Preferences — Options and if “Use cairo to improve plot quality.” is checked, unselect it.

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Finally, we need to create a configuration file. We need to tell Maxima where to find gnuplot on your computer, and we need to let each of the draw and plot functions know where to open external windows. I’ve made a MacOS app called Maximascript makes those things happen.: Download the After downloading the app, MacOS will of course prevent you from double clicking and running an unknown app you got from an unknown source, so you’ll need to find Maximascript in Finder—Downloads, double-finger click and select O pen, and then agree that you want to open it. The result will be almost underwhelming — a terminal window opens and displays the line “maxima script” to let you know that things happened as planned. You can close that window.