How to Install and Uninstall maxima Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "maxima" package

This guide let you learn how to install maxima on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall maxima on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                maxima
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the maxima package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: maxima
Priority: optional
Section: universe/math
Installed-Size: 48983
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Camm Maguire
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.37.2-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgmp10, libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libx11-6
Recommends: maxima-share, gnuplot-x11
Suggests: texmacs, maxima-doc, xmaxima, maxima-emacs, wish
Filename: pool/universe/m/maxima/maxima_5.37.2-8_amd64.deb
Size: 6133696
MD5sum: 16b24dc1e6264beeac0ca5358f5490ef
SHA1: 69f6e67ea8eb75104a108d7aade936ee5944a789
SHA256: cb403be0157680035da2a4c08e6471a59da92193d9228ced85284bebdf0930ae
Description-en: Computer algebra system -- base system
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 the main executables and base system files.
Description-md5: a893a8f17245868a395fc5e31ea49aa5
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu