How to Install and Uninstall maxima-emacs Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "maxima-emacs" package

This tutorial shows how to install maxima-emacs on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                maxima-emacs
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "maxima-emacs" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall maxima-emacs on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                maxima-emacs
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the maxima-emacs package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: maxima-emacs
Architecture: all
Version: 5.44.0-3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/math
Source: maxima
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Camm Maguire
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 609
Depends: maxima (>= 5.44.0-3), emacs-gtk | emacsen, emacsen-common (>= 1.4.14), texlive-base-bin, tex-common (>= 6.13), texlive-latex-recommended, maxima-doc (>= 5.44.0-3)
Recommends: mime-support, postscript-viewer, pdf-viewer
Replaces: maxima (<< 5.44.0-3)
Filename: pool/universe/m/maxima/maxima-emacs_5.44.0-3_all.deb
Size: 87068
MD5sum: c8d19b542a3ceaaacd065f663382ad43
SHA1: 835c2b6d7f5de67ab6b57a85171aa828d220409d
SHA256: f74900480c309f125ac2e58974b7dec94e60854483a0e867be8270a210b5453e
SHA512: fc57902944b3e996664f55c68cc83e56a525d8de275ecb0641241d2bc1c665ab06693281a307ec1bd0053da264b9bd89a43c0a11141ec664d7cd2c7368bfb666
Description-en: Computer algebra system -- emacs interface
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.
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This package contains a tradition emacs interface, together with a
newer imaxima interface supporting inline imaging and HTML export
under a specialized imath mode.
Description-md5: 97f2cd7a6f54bf76ae929a9db126bb3f