Re: [Maxima-discuss] Installation Error - Windows 11

[Aswathy M <asw...@gm...>]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Tue, 21 Nov, 2023, 12:32 am Robert Dodier, <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 6:36 AM Aswathy M <asw...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I am facing installation issue with wxmaxima, while trying to install
> latest version 5.47 on my windows 11 OS. I am hereby attaching the
> screenshot of the error message prompted.
> > Hoping for a positive and fruitful response from your end.
>
> The error message seems to show a quoting problem -- wxMaxima is
> supposed to execute Maxima (to be the calculation engine) with an
> argument "-s" and a port number, so that the UI and Maxima will
> communicate over a socket. Anyway it appears there is too much
> quoting, such that Windows is trying to execute the whole string
> "foo/bar/baz/maxima.bat -s nnnn" as the name of a command.
>
> Maybe you can edit the command line? I think there is an option for
> that somewhere in the configuration menu. Not sure, I don't use
> wxMaxima too often.
>
> You can also try running the command line version of Maxima instead.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Robert
>