wxmaxima cannot connect to maxima

tangram1 · May 22, 2011, 3:11pm

Hello
Recently i installed:
maxima-5.17.0-1.2.x86_64
wxMaxima-11.04.0-16.1.x86_64

After wxMaxima start, I can see on status bar(bottom right)
“Maxima process terminated”
when I try manually restart maxima, menu: Maxima->Restart Maxima
I see “Maxima started, waiting for connection…” and waiting waiting and nothing happens.
but Maxima called from command line works fine.
what could be wrong ?

connection port (default 4010)
locallhost entry in /etc/hosts (I have one)
firewall (standard suse setting without any extra settings) I tryed temporarily switch off

Thanks for any advices.

martin_helm · May 22, 2011, 3:58pm

Works here but my maxima is maxima-5.24.0-22.1.x86_64 from the education
repository.

tangram1 · May 22, 2011, 8:08pm

Hello martin_helm

I have just added education repo:
Index of /repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.4
but here the most recent version of maxima is 5.23.2-1.2
Your version is available on science repo:
Index of /repositories/science/openSUSE_11.4
but here is another problem, if I try to instal wxmaxima from
this repo, I get dependencies error:


zypper in -D -r 14( it is my science repo number) wxmaxima
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: nothing provides gnuplot needed by wxMaxima-11.04.0-16.1.x86_64
 Solution 1: do not install wxMaxima-11.04.0-16.1.x86_64
 Solution 2: break wxMaxima by ignoring some of its dependencies

I’m a little bit confused

martin_helm · May 22, 2011, 9:03pm

Oops, sorry, checked again, you are right it is the science repo, I seem to
be blind today - both maxima and wxMaxima from science not education.
Your error message about gnuplot is weird.
I have the following:


martinh@ganymed:~> rpm -q wxMaxima
wxMaxima-11.04.0-16.1.x86_64
martinh@ganymed:~> rpm -q maxima
maxima-5.24.0-22.1.x86_64
martinh@ganymed:~> rpm -q gnuplot
gnuplot-4.4.2-4.8.x86_64

gnuplot is simply from the standard repository.
What shows “rpm -q gnuplot” on your machine?

tangram1 · May 22, 2011, 10:05pm

Shows nothing because I have removed previous instalation of wxmaxima with all dependencies.
“zypper rm -u package”

martin_helm · May 22, 2011, 10:11pm

tangram1 wrote:

>
> Shows nothing because I have removed previous instalation of wxmaxima
> with all dependencies.
> “zypper rm -u package”
>
I would simply try to install gnuplot first and then the maxima, wxmaxima
from science.
Can you post the output from


zypper lr -d

to see which repositories you have enabled now?

tangram1 · May 23, 2011, 9:20am

Hm, I can do as you advice, but if wxmaxima needs gnuplot it should install it via dependencies and not manually by user action - or ?
Currently I’m at work but in the evening I will send you my repos detail information.
Till evening.

martin_helm · May 23, 2011, 10:53am

tangram1 wrote:

>
> Hm, I can do as you advice, but if wxmaxima needs gnuplot it should
> install it via dependencies and not manually by user action - or ?
> Currently I’m at work but in the evening I will send you my repos
> detail information.
> Till evening.
>
Of course it SHOULD. But it does it not for you due to an unknown reason, so
the question is, if you install it first, will it recognize that it is
already there? First of all it is a workaround which may work and if it does
it should be reported to the package maintainer, if not you need to look
further what else in your system can create this behaviour. As you correctly
recognise - this is not normal behaviour.

tangram1 · May 23, 2011, 7:25pm

I installed gnuplot(4.4.2-4.8) from standard repo and then I tried to install maxima in latest version 5.24.0-22.1, but it did not work, due to lack right gnuplot version for maxima 5.24.0-22.1.


zypper in -r14 maxima
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: nothing provides plotutils needed by maxima-5.24.0-22.1.x86_64
 Solution 1: do not install maxima-5.24.0-22.1.x86_64
 Solution 2: break maxima by ignoring some of its dependencies

I checked the available versions of the maxima


zypper se -us --match-exact --sort-by-repo maxima
S | Name   | Type       | Version     | Arch   | Repository
--+--------+------------+-------------+--------+-----------
  | maxima | package    | 5.17.0-1.2  | x86_64 | contrib
  | maxima | package    | 5.17.0-1.2  | i586   | contrib
  | maxima | srcpackage | 5.17.0-1.2  | noarch | contrib
  | maxima | package    | 5.23.2-1.2  | x86_64 | education
  | maxima | package    | 5.23.2-1.2  | i586   | education
  | maxima | srcpackage | 5.23.2-1.2  | noarch | education
  | maxima | package    | 5.24.0-22.1 | x86_64 | science
  | maxima | package    | 5.24.0-22.1 | i586   | science
  | maxima | srcpackage | 5.24.0-22.1 | noarch | science

and tried with maxima-5.23.2-1.2.x86_64 - the same as above.

I can install only maxima 5.17.0-1.2 which does not work with wxMaxima-11.04.0-16.1.x86_64
and we are at the start point.

Here are my repos:


#  | Alias                                 | Name                                  | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                         | Service
---+---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | Aktualizacja-dla-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Aktualizacja dla openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /update/11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/)                                   |        
 2 | contrib                               | contrib                               | Yes     | No      |   98     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/11.4:/Contrib/standard](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/11.4:/Contrib/standard/) |        
 3 | education                             | education                             | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.4)           |        
 4 | game                                  | game                                  | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/games/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.4)               |        
 5 | java                                  | java                                  | Yes     | No      |   98     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/Java:/packages/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Java:/packages/openSUSE_11.4/)     |        
 6 | kde-update                            | kde-update                            | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.4/)   |        
 7 | multimedia                            | multimedia                            | Yes     | No      |   98     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_11.4/)   |        
 8 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0                  | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0                  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | [Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/)                    |        
 9 | packman                               | packman                               | Yes     | No      |   98     | rpm-md | [Index of /suse/openSUSE_11.4/](http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4)                                  |        
10 | repo-debug                            | openSUSE-11.4-Debug                   | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/)              |        
11 | repo-debug-update                     | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug            | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /debug/update/11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/11.4/)                             |        
12 | repo-non-oss                          | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss                 | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | [Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/)                |        
13 | repo-source                           | openSUSE-11.4-Source                  | Yes     | Yes     |   98     | yast2  | [Index of /source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/)             |        
14 | science                               | science                               | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/science/openSUSE_11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_11.4)             |

Martin do not look on priority column, I usually use “-r” switch.

martin_helm · May 23, 2011, 7:50pm

tangram1 wrote:

> zypper in -r14 maxima
plotutils is in the standard repository, with your command you only accept
additional dependencies to be satisfied from the one and only repository #14
which you accept by this command and which does not contain plotutils.
That explains also what happened with you gnuplot problem.
As man zypper tells us

Work only with the repository specified by the alias, name, number or URI.
This option can be used multiple times.

So the easiest solution is here to first install plotutils and then maxima.

tangram1 · May 23, 2011, 8:39pm

SOLVED

Thanks, I done it with two commands:


zypper in -r8 -r14 maxima
zypper in -r8 -r14 wxmaxima

I had not thought about that repo switch “-r#” limits dependencies only to specified repo.