The latest version of wxMaxima is 26.07.1.
All wxMaxima releases are available from GitHub. We release the source code and (usually) Windows installers.
WxMaxima is a graphical front end to Maxima, which does the mathematics in the background. So a wxMaxima installation (without Maxima) will be useless.
Free code signing for the wxMaxima Windows installer is provided by SignPath.io, with a code-signing certificate issued by the SignPath Foundation.
apturl
which means that the wxMaxima version shipped with the current distribution
can be installed by simply
by clicking this link.
chmod +x filenameor similar) and start it.
On macOS, the current version of Maxima is now supported by MacPorts, https://www.macports.org/. After installing macports the latest release of Maxima can be installed using the following command:
sudo port install maxima
The development version of Maxima can be installed using the following command instead:
sudo port install maxima-devel
Note: If you have already installed maxima-5.41.0, you must deactivate it with the next command before installing the development version:
sudo port deactivate maxima
wxMaxima can then be installed using the command
sudo port install wxmaxima
or
sudo port install wxmaxima-devel
brew tap homebrew/science brew install maxima brew install wxmaxima
Additionally a nightly build of wxMaxima (without Maxima) can be downloaded from www.peterpall.de/wxMaxima/nightly/wxMaxima.dmg
If the wxMaxima window opens fine but every cell just sits in the
evaluation queue forever (the status bar stuck on "Reading Maxima
output"), this is usually macOS Gatekeeper quarantining the
maxima binary installed above -- it silently blocks the
local connection wxMaxima uses to talk to it. Fix it from a Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /path/to/maxima
If the exact binary path is unclear, running it against the whole
install prefix also works, e.g. $(brew --prefix) for
Homebrew or /opt/local for MacPorts. See
issue #1761
for details.