From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: maxima (Mathematica/Maple-type computer algebra system) is missing. it requires a Common Lisp implementation (CLISP or GCL) to tun. <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/> <http://clisp.cons.org> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type maxima at the shell prompt 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: maxima should start Additional info: a desktop computer is just a toy without a CAS (computer algebra system)
This sounds like a good candidate for Fedora Extras/fedora.us first. See http://www.fedora.us/ for details.