[Maxima-discuss] New installation and updates

[Greg B. <gwb...@gm...>]

I have a new machine with linux mint 22.2 and sbcl-2.5.10.

From  a previous machine with mint 21 I have Robert Dodier's recipe for 
cloning maxima
and thence installing it. I am quite comfortable with this sort of 
thing, so I intend to use
it on the new machine.

Then I'll get wxMaxima as a gui too.

If there are any caveats about the current release or this process I 
would be grateful to learn of them.

 From time to time on this list I see notes from one of the maintainers, 
to whom I am
very grateful, of the sort:
If there is no objection  I'll merge this soon.

Is there a maxima-approved way to merge this change on my own (compiled) 
copy of maxima ?
I am aware that .fasls from different sbcl's don't play together; I do 
update my sbcl fairly regularly.

I don't mind fetching from github, compiling, slotting into an 
appropriate fasl slot, but that is with my own stuff; maxima presumably 
keeps a
'record' of what's where and I need to more careful with merges.

Thanks for the great software and, in advance, for any advice and 
assistance.

Cheers
Greg Bennett