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

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "maxima-src" package

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


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall maxima-src on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: maxima-src
Priority: optional
Section: universe/math
Installed-Size: 5705
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Camm Maguire
Architecture: all
Source: maxima
Version: 5.37.2-8
Depends: tex-common (>= 6)
Filename: pool/universe/m/maxima/maxima-src_5.37.2-8_all.deb
Size: 1029780
MD5sum: d4bba6f41cfe4142d68f51a157ca966f
SHA1: 866842c7013538d0cc612b479784125325af22d1
SHA256: aa70195c909b03334a37bdeeddc83fcdd92d9c7d1728b9b72f68b74b855254ae
Description-en: Computer algebra system -- source code
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 lisp source code.
Description-md5: 70f88d0896858f9e362ad270cbbfc8c6
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu