Maxima Process Terminated in XP
March 6, 2008 – 10:35 amThis is a short post with a simple fix for fellow math students how failed to install wxMaxima on Windows XP.
I had downloaded the maxima installer from sourceforge, and it already contained the wxMaxima frontend.
After installing to “C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.14.0″ I tried to run wxMaxima but it failed to connect to maxima, while displaying the message “maxima process terminated” in the status bar.
Re-installing maxima and wxMaxima (using the same installer) in a directory that did not contain a space character (e.g. “C:\Maxima-5.14.0″) solved the problem for me.
I hope this sovles that problem for other users too.
5 Responses to “Maxima Process Terminated in XP”
Maxima sounds like a great idea but it really isn’t ready for mainstream. I’ve spent an hour going through all the steps and debug procedures and it doesn’t work. Period. I doubt it would gain many adherents in college due to the fuss to get it to work. Of course, you get what you pay for, but Octave is a much more mature and stable solution.
By Alex on Apr 25, 2008
Nonsense – of course it works, otherwise people wouldn’t be able to use it. And it is definitely not immature – maybe “elderly”.
If you’re going to complain about a program you need to explain HOW it doesn’t work.
By Alister on Apr 25, 2009
wxMaxima implements its own math display engine to nicely display maxima output.I can recommand this to everyone to use, ok it’s maybe not for everyone…
By Sander on Jun 9, 2009
If nothing else helps – try turning off DEP for maxima.exe…
By someone on Jul 10, 2009
Alex, Octave and maxima are two different things. octive is a numerical (algebraic) system while maxima is a symbolic system. big diff. I’ve tried both but tend to lean towards maxima. but as most of you mentioned, setting it up can be challenging
By SIGTERMer on Oct 27, 2009