On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jon Peatfield wrote:
>
>>  BTW we also have (not *too* ancient) Maxima sl5 packages (built with clisp
>>  from DAG) if anyone prefers that over REDUCE.
>
> # yum --enablerepo=epel info maxima
> ...
> Available Packages
> Name   : maxima
> Arch   : x86_64
> Version: 5.16.3
> Release: 4.el5
> Size   : 15 M
> Repo   : epel
> Summary: Symbolic Computation Program
> Description:
> Maxima is a full symbolic computation program.  It is full featured
> doing symbolic manipulation of polynomials, matrices, rational
> functions, integration, Todd-coxeter, graphing, bigfloats.  It has a
> symbolic debugger source level debugger for maxima code.  Maxima is
> based on the original Macsyma developed at MIT in the 1970's.
>
> ...which seems to be the version current on
> 	 http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

I tend to avoid the epel repo because it's packages (in the past at least) 
have tended to pull in a variety of other stuff which isn't *quite* 
compatible with what we have/want...

BTW Maxima 5.17.0 was released in December, not that I've had a reason to 
upgrade yet...