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Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur #1325

Open rtoy opened 3 months ago

rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:31 Created by lvanwarren on 2021-07-12 06:14:08 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811

I've been using Maxima since Dr. Jim Purtillo brought it to the University of Illinois from MIT in 1981. I would like my next generation of math students to continue using it for the next 40 years. Simple things should be simple to do, especially for students already drinking from the firehose. I will briefly describe some barriers to entry and then describe two specific showstoppers. Barriers to Entry: 1) Should the user Google Maxima, or wxMaxima? How do they know which one to install? 2) Let's say they Google wxMaxima. They are routed here: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/download.html 3) From there they are routed here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/ 4) From there they are routed here to a bewildering constellation of 21 possible versions. Let's say devoid of any other guiding principle, they watched 'Contact' with Jodie Foster and, armed with Occam's Razor, they choose the most recent version: 5.45.1 dated 6-23-2021. 5) From there they download MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg.

Two Showstoppers From there they encounter Apple's quarantine, and after following the instructions included in the distribution, they find that even after lifting the quarantine with heavy Unix magic, this distribution does not work on the M1 Macbook Air because it cannot send events to the terminal. Dead End One. 90% of students deterred.

For the 10% of students that remain, they read further and discover that wxMaxima can be installed using MacPorts. This means that since their computer is new they most install MacPorts because it is not installed by default. The 8% of students that remain discover that to install MacPorts they must install the XCode Command Line tools. They do so and now have to edit their .zprofile file to include the correct path to the newly installed tools for port to work.

They then do a sudo port install which installs 5.43.2 of Maxima and wxMaxima of 21.02.0_MAC.

They then execute wxMaxima which produces a running session. However as soon as they click: wxMaxima --> Preferences their session crashes reproducibly.

So this last line is my bug report. The first part is the hell the average student has to go through to get to it. My question is, what would it take for wxMaxima to be packaged in a form acceptable to the app store, since random downloads are no longer particularly safe? All the best,

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rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:32 Created by robert_dodier on 2021-07-14 18:00:08 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#c30f

Van, I appreciate your interest and apologize about the difficulties. From what I know, none of the Maxima developers have access to an M1 system to sort out the problems. Do you have access to such a system? Can you make it available to one or more Maxima developers? Are you perhaps willing to arrange for developer access to a commercial hosting service which offers M1 macs? Thanks for any information.

Also, yet another installation method for macOS is Homebrew. I have installed Maxima via Homebrew and it seems to work fine. I don't know if that's the case on M1 as well.

rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:36 Created by robert_dodier on 2021-07-14 18:00:56 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#759a

rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:39 Created by lvwarren on 2021-07-14 19:31:02 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#c30f/72c2

Robert,

Thanks for getting back to me on this time critical bug. The M1 system I have access to belongs to a student so I am not really in a position to make it available to the developers. I have worked with Guntar in the past on these kinds of issues with some success.

brew capability on new Macs has been deprecated somewhat due to Apple's protecting the filesystem from ransomware, etc. I have gotten the MacPorts install to work just well enough that students can proceed on a limited basis, they are just unable to click preferences without a crash. The crash reports are automatically routed to Apple. I could make some inquiries to see if an M1 remote system could be made available.

Regards,

From: Robert Dodier robert_dodier@users.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 1:00 PM To: [maxima:bugs] 3811@bugs.maxima.p.re.sourceforge.net Subject: [maxima:bugs] #3811 Serious Maxima Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

Van, I appreciate your interest and apologize about the difficulties. From what I know, none of the Maxima developers have access to an M1 system to sort out the problems. Do you have access to such a system? Can you make it available to one or more Maxima developers? Are you perhaps willing to arrange for developer access to a commercial hosting service which offers M1 macs? Thanks for any information.

Also, yet another installation method for macOS is Homebrew. I have installed Maxima via Homebrew and it seems to work fine. I don't know if that's the case on M1 as well.

[bugs:#3811]https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/ Serious Maxima Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

Status: open Group: None Created: Mon Jul 12, 2021 06:14 AM UTC by lvwarren Last Updated: Mon Jul 12, 2021 06:14 AM UTC Owner: nobody Attachments:

I've been using Maxima since Dr. Jim Purtillo brought it to the University of Illinois from MIT in 1981. I would like my next generation of math students to continue using it for the next 40 years. Simple things should be simple to do, especially for students already drinking from the firehose. I will briefly describe some barriers to entry and then describe two specific showstoppers. Barriers to Entry: 1) Should the user Google Maxima, or wxMaxima? How do they know which one to install? 2) Let's say they Google wxMaxima. They are routed here: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/download.html 3) From there they are routed here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/ 4) From there they are routed here to a bewildering constellation of 21 possible versions. Let's say devoid of any other guiding principle, they watched 'Contact' with Jodie Foster and, armed with Occam's Razor, they choose the most recent version: 5.45.1 dated 6-23-2021. 5) From there they download MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg.

Two Showstoppers From there they encounter Apple's quarantine, and after following the instructions included in the distribution, they find that even after lifting the quarantine with heavy Unix magic, this distribution does not work on the M1 Macbook Air because it cannot send events to the terminal. Dead End One. 90% of students deterred.

For the 10% of students that remain, they read further and discover that wxMaxima can be installed using MacPorts. This means that since their computer is new they most install MacPorts because it is not installed by default. The 8% of students that remain discover that to install MacPorts they must install the XCode Command Line tools. They do so and now have to edit their .zprofile file to include the correct path to the newly installed tools for port to work.

They then do a sudo port install which installs 5.43.2 of Maxima and wxMaxima of 21.02.0_MAC.

They then execute wxMaxima which produces a running session. However as soon as they click: wxMaxima --> Preferences their session crashes reproducibly.

So this last line is my bug report. The first part is the hell the average student has to go through to get to it. My question is, what would it take for wxMaxima to be packaged in a form acceptable to the app store, since random downloads are no longer particularly safe? All the best,

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rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:43 Created by tomio-arisaka on 2021-07-17 13:53:28 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#2a74

I'm not a licensed developer of macOS. So I cannot distribute anything with "App Store".

If you want to make a binary of Maxima, see the "How_to_make_a_standalone_binary_of_Maxima.rtf" file. It shows how to make a standalone binary of Maxima with MacPorts. See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/5.43.0-MacOSX/

If you don't like "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg", you should make a pull-request for MacPorts in order to update the official port-files of Maxima. See: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pulls (The MacPorts port-files are written in Tcl/Tk)

If you are interested in "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg", see the following:

After downloading the "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg" file into the "${HOME}/Downloads" directory, enter the "xattr" command in order to remove the "quarantine" attribute of the "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg" file: (Note: Don't open the downloaded file before removing the "quarantine" attribute of it)

$ cd ${HOME}/Downloads
$ 
$ ls -l@ MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg
total 588184
-rw-r--r--@  1 maxima  staff     675856  7 16 18:21 MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg
    com.apple.lastuseddate#PS          16 
    com.apple.quarantine           57 
$ 
$ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ${HOME}/Downloads/MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg
$ 
$ ls -l@ MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg 
-rw-r--r--@ 1 maxima  staff  675856  7 16 18:21 MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg
    com.apple.lastuseddate#PS       16

Open the "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg" file and follow the "ReadMe for Intel Mac.rtf" or "ReadMe for M1 Mac.rtf" file.

$ open MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg 
$ 
$ open /Volumes/MacPorts-Maxima/ReadMe\ for\ Intel\ Mac.rtf

If MacPorts has already been installed, then enter the next command:

$ sudo port selfupdate; sh /Volumes/MacPorts-Maxima/copy_portfiles.sh

Thanks,

rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:47 Created by macrakis on 2021-07-17 17:58:14 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#3137

rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:50 Created by tomio-arisaka on 2021-07-18 09:43:19 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#02b7

wxMaxima is not a part of the Maxima project. So I don't pay much attention to a bug of wxMaxima. But Gunter said "I rewrote most of the config dialogue tab that was affected hoping that this fixes the problem". Thanks, Gunter.

Attached "Portfile" file is a port-file of wxMaxima. It includes "wxMaxima-devel" port which supports building a development version of wxMaxima.(Gunter's fixed version) (commit: 13ea2d87bc0aed1c93cedf4fd5aabbabb15b9e93)

If you want to verify the Gunter's fix, then try the following:

(Note: You have to install "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg" before trying this. Because the official port-file of wxMaxima does not include "wxMaxima-devel".)

(1) Downloads the attached "Portfile" file into the "${HOME}/Downloads" directory and remove the "quarantine" attribute of it:

$ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ${HOME}/Downloads/Portfile

(2) Copy the downloaded "Portfile" to the wxMaxima directory of MacPorts:

$ cd $(port dir wxmaxima)
$ 
$ sudo cp -ip ./Portfile ./Portfile.prev
Password:
$ 
$ sudo cp -i ${HOME}/Downloads/Portfile ./
Password:
overwrite ./Portfile? (y/n [n]) y
$ 
$ cd $HOME

(3) Check the "wxMaxima-devel" port:

$ port info wxmaxima-devel
wxMaxima-devel @21.05.2-dev-20210715_1 (math, aqua)
Variants:             wx32

Description:          Graphical user interface for Maxima based on wxWidgets:
                      Provides the development version, which is typically
                      updated every day.
Homepage:             https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/

Build Dependencies:   cmake
Library Dependencies: wxWidgets-3.0
Runtime Dependencies: maxima
Conflicts with:       wxMaxima
Platforms:            darwin
License:              GPL-2
Maintainers:          none

(4) If wxMaxima is installed and active, deactivate it:

$ sudo port deactivate wxmaxima
--->  Deactivating wxMaxima @21.05.1_1
--->  Cleaning wxMaxima

(5) Install wxMaxima-devel:

$ sudo port install wxmaxima-devel
--->  Computing dependencies for wxMaxima-devel
--->  Fetching archive for wxMaxima-devel
   ...
   ...
$ 
$ port installed 'wxmaxima*' and active
The following ports are currently installed:
  wxMaxima-devel @21.05.2-dev-20210715_1 (active)

Thanks,

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rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:54 Created by peterpall on 2021-07-18 12:02:32 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#02b7/f0b4

That ports file is a valuable thing. Thanks a lot! As soon as someone can acknowledge that my changes have resolved the crash I'll try to create a new wxMaxima release.

rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:49:57 Created by lvwarren on 2021-07-27 07:40:14 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#02b7/fd6b

No "Portfile" was attached to this message.

I cannot log into sourceforge because they changed to multifactor authentication and my login no longer works and they don't disclose what authenticator app I am supposed to use. I have contacted them about this. No response yet.

Perhaps github would be a better repo since it is more widely used and easier to log into.

From: Tomio Arisaka tomio-arisaka@users.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 4:43 AM To: [maxima:bugs] 3811@bugs.maxima.p.re.sourceforge.net Subject: [maxima:bugs] #3811 Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

wxMaxima is not a part of the Maxima project. So I don't pay much attention to a bug of wxMaxima. But Gunter said "I rewrote most of the config dialogue tab that was affected hoping that this fixes the problem". Thanks, Gunter.

Attached "Portfile" file is a port-file of wxMaxima. It includes "wxMaxima-devel" port which supports building a development version of wxMaxima.(Gunter's fixed version) (commit: 13ea2d87bc0aed1c93cedf4fd5aabbabb15b9e93)

If you want to verify the Gunter's fix, then try the following:

(Note: You have to install "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg" before trying this. Because the official port-file of wxMaxima does not include "wxMaxima-devel".)

(1) Downloads the attached "Portfile" file into the "${HOME}/Downloads" directory and remove the "quarantine" attribute of it:

$ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ${HOME}/Downloads/Portfile

(2) Copy the downloaded "Portfile" to the wxMaxima directory of MacPorts:

$ cd $(port dir wxmaxima) $ $ sudo cp -ip ./Portfile ./Portfile.prev Password: $ $ sudo cp -i ${HOME}/Downloads/Portfile ./ Password: overwrite ./Portfile? (y/n [n]) y $ $ cd $HOME

(3) Check the "wxMaxima-devel" port:

$ port info wxmaxima-devel wxMaxima-devel @21.05.2-dev-20210715_1 (math, aqua) Variants: wx32

Description: Graphical user interface for Maxima based on wxWidgets: Provides the development version, which is typically updated every day. Homepage: https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/

Build Dependencies: cmake Library Dependencies: wxWidgets-3.0 Runtime Dependencies: maxima Conflicts with: wxMaxima Platforms: darwin License: GPL-2 Maintainers: none

(4) If wxMaxima is installed and active, deactivate it:

$ sudo port deactivate wxmaxima ---> Deactivating wxMaxima @21.05.1_1 ---> Cleaning wxMaxima

(5) Install wxMaxima-devel:

$ sudo port install wxmaxima-devel ---> Computing dependencies for wxMaxima-devel ---> Fetching archive for wxMaxima-devel ... ... $ $ port installed 'wxmaxima*' and active The following ports are currently installed: wxMaxima-devel @21.05.2-dev-20210715_1 (active)

Thanks,

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[bugs:#3811]https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/ Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

Status: open Group: None Labels: installation macos Created: Mon Jul 12, 2021 06:14 AM UTC by lvwarren Last Updated: Sat Jul 17, 2021 05:58 PM UTC Owner: nobody Attachments:

I've been using Maxima since Dr. Jim Purtillo brought it to the University of Illinois from MIT in 1981. I would like my next generation of math students to continue using it for the next 40 years. Simple things should be simple to do, especially for students already drinking from the firehose. I will briefly describe some barriers to entry and then describe two specific showstoppers. Barriers to Entry: 1) Should the user Google Maxima, or wxMaxima? How do they know which one to install? 2) Let's say they Google wxMaxima. They are routed here: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/download.html 3) From there they are routed here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/ 4) From there they are routed here to a bewildering constellation of 21 possible versions. Let's say devoid of any other guiding principle, they watched 'Contact' with Jodie Foster and, armed with Occam's Razor, they choose the most recent version: 5.45.1 dated 6-23-2021. 5) From there they download MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg.

Two Showstoppers From there they encounter Apple's quarantine, and after following the instructions included in the distribution, they find that even after lifting the quarantine with heavy Unix magic, this distribution does not work on the M1 Macbook Air because it cannot send events to the terminal. Dead End One. 90% of students deterred.

For the 10% of students that remain, they read further and discover that wxMaxima can be installed using MacPorts. This means that since their computer is new they most install MacPorts because it is not installed by default. The 8% of students that remain discover that to install MacPorts they must install the XCode Command Line tools. They do so and now have to edit their .zprofile file to include the correct path to the newly installed tools for port to work.

They then do a sudo port install which installs 5.43.2 of Maxima and wxMaxima of 21.02.0_MAC.

They then execute wxMaxima which produces a running session. However as soon as they click: wxMaxima --> Preferences their session crashes reproducibly.

So this last line is my bug report. The first part is the hell the average student has to go through to get to it. My question is, what would it take for wxMaxima to be packaged in a form acceptable to the app store, since random downloads are no longer particularly safe? All the best,

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rtoy commented 3 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-04 09:50:01 Created by peterpall on 2021-07-27 08:09:16 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/#02b7/fd6b/d02a

Google authenticator and many apps that are compatible to this app should work.

Am 27. Juli 2021 09:40:17 MESZ schrieb Van lvwarren@users.sourceforge.net:

No "Portfile" was attached to this message.

I cannot log into sourceforge because they changed to multifactor authentication and my login no longer works and they don't disclose what authenticator app I am supposed to use. I have contacted them about this. No response yet.

Perhaps github would be a better repo since it is more widely used and easier to log into.

  • Van

From: Tomio Arisaka tomio-arisaka@users.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 4:43 AM To: [maxima:bugs] 3811@bugs.maxima.p.re.sourceforge.net Subject: [maxima:bugs] #3811 Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

wxMaxima is not a part of the Maxima project. So I don't pay much attention to a bug of wxMaxima. But Gunter said "I rewrote most of the config dialogue tab that was affected hoping that this fixes the problem". Thanks, Gunter.

Attached "Portfile" file is a port-file of wxMaxima. It includes "wxMaxima-devel" port which supports building a development version of wxMaxima.(Gunter's fixed version) (commit: 13ea2d87bc0aed1c93cedf4fd5aabbabb15b9e93)

If you want to verify the Gunter's fix, then try the following:

(Note: You have to install "MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg" before trying this. Because the official port-file of wxMaxima does not include "wxMaxima-devel".)

(1) Downloads the attached "Portfile" file into the "${HOME}/Downloads" directory and remove the "quarantine" attribute of it:

$ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ${HOME}/Downloads/Portfile

(2) Copy the downloaded "Portfile" to the wxMaxima directory of MacPorts:

$ cd $(port dir wxmaxima) $ $ sudo cp -ip ./Portfile ./Portfile.prev Password: $ $ sudo cp -i ${HOME}/Downloads/Portfile ./ Password: overwrite ./Portfile? (y/n [n]) y $ $ cd $HOME

(3) Check the "wxMaxima-devel" port:

$ port info wxmaxima-devel wxMaxima-devel @21.05.2-dev-20210715_1 (math, aqua) Variants: wx32

Description: Graphical user interface for Maxima based on wxWidgets: Provides the development version, which is typically updated every day. Homepage: https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/

Build Dependencies: cmake Library Dependencies: wxWidgets-3.0 Runtime Dependencies: maxima Conflicts with: wxMaxima Platforms: darwin License: GPL-2 Maintainers: none

(4) If wxMaxima is installed and active, deactivate it:

$ sudo port deactivate wxmaxima ---> Deactivating wxMaxima @21.05.1_1 ---> Cleaning wxMaxima

(5) Install wxMaxima-devel:

$ sudo port install wxmaxima-devel ---> Computing dependencies for wxMaxima-devel ---> Fetching archive for wxMaxima-devel ... ... $ $ port installed 'wxmaxima*' and active The following ports are currently installed: wxMaxima-devel @21.05.2-dev-20210715_1 (active)

Thanks,

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[bugs:#3811]https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3811/ Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

Status: open Group: None Labels: installation macos Created: Mon Jul 12, 2021 06:14 AM UTC by lvwarren Last Updated: Sat Jul 17, 2021 05:58 PM UTC Owner: nobody Attachments:

I've been using Maxima since Dr. Jim Purtillo brought it to the University of Illinois from MIT in 1981. I would like my next generation of math students to continue using it for the next 40 years. Simple things should be simple to do, especially for students already drinking from the firehose. I will briefly describe some barriers to entry and then describe two specific showstoppers. Barriers to Entry: 1) Should the user Google Maxima, or wxMaxima? How do they know which one to install? 2) Let's say they Google wxMaxima. They are routed here: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/download.html 3) From there they are routed here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/ 4) From there they are routed here to a bewildering constellation of 21 possible versions. Let's say devoid of any other guiding principle, they watched 'Contact' with Jodie Foster and, armed with Occam's Razor, they choose the most recent version: 5.45.1 dated 6-23-2021. 5) From there they download MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg.

Two Showstoppers From there they encounter Apple's quarantine, and after following the instructions included in the distribution, they find that even after lifting the quarantine with heavy Unix magic, this distribution does not work on the M1 Macbook Air because it cannot send events to the terminal. Dead End One. 90% of students deterred.

For the 10% of students that remain, they read further and discover that wxMaxima can be installed using MacPorts. This means that since their computer is new they most install MacPorts because it is not installed by default. The 8% of students that remain discover that to install MacPorts they must install the XCode Command Line tools. They do so and now have to edit their .zprofile file to include the correct path to the newly installed tools for port to work.

They then do a sudo port install which installs 5.43.2 of Maxima and wxMaxima of 21.02.0_MAC.

They then execute wxMaxima which produces a running session. However as soon as they click: wxMaxima --> Preferences their session crashes reproducibly.

So this last line is my bug report. The first part is the hell the average student has to go through to get to it. My question is, what would it take for wxMaxima to be packaged in a form acceptable to the app store, since random downloads are no longer particularly safe? All the best,

  • Van L Van Warren facebook.com/LearningCalculus

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[bugs:#3811] Installation Problems on Macbook Air with M1 running Big Sur

Status: open Group: None Labels: installation macos Created: Mon Jul 12, 2021 06:14 AM UTC by lvwarren Last Updated: Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:02 PM UTC Owner: nobody Attachments:

I've been using Maxima since Dr. Jim Purtillo brought it to the University of Illinois from MIT in 1981. I would like my next generation of math students to continue using it for the next 40 years. Simple things should be simple to do, especially for students already drinking from the firehose. I will briefly describe some barriers to entry and then describe two specific showstoppers. Barriers to Entry: 1) Should the user Google Maxima, or wxMaxima? How do they know which one to install? 2) Let's say they Google wxMaxima. They are routed here: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/download.html 3) From there they are routed here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/ 4) From there they are routed here to a bewildering constellation of 21 possible versions. Let's say devoid of any other guiding principle, they watched 'Contact' with Jodie Foster and, armed with Occam's Razor, they choose the most recent version: 5.45.1 dated 6-23-2021. 5) From there they download MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1.dmg.

Two Showstoppers From there they encounter Apple's quarantine, and after following the instructions included in the distribution, they find that even after lifting the quarantine with heavy Unix magic, this distribution does not work on the M1 Macbook Air because it cannot send events to the terminal. Dead End One. 90% of students deterred.

For the 10% of students that remain, they read further and discover that wxMaxima can be installed using MacPorts. This means that since their computer is new they most install MacPorts because it is not installed by default. The 8% of students that remain discover that to install MacPorts they must install the XCode Command Line tools. They do so and now have to edit their .zprofile file to include the correct path to the newly installed tools for port to work.

They then do a sudo port install which installs 5.43.2 of Maxima and wxMaxima of 21.02.0_MAC.

They then execute wxMaxima which produces a running session. However as soon as they click: wxMaxima --> Preferences their session crashes reproducibly.

So this last line is my bug report. The first part is the hell the average student has to go through to get to it. My question is, what would it take for wxMaxima to be packaged in a form acceptable to the app store, since random downloads are no longer particularly safe? All the best,

  • Van L Van Warren facebook.com/LearningCalculus

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