The repositories of most Linux distributions provide packages with a precompiled version of Axiom. Occasionally, packages for Open Axiom are also provided. Open Axiom is a fork from Axiom. This tutorial is about Axiom, not Open Axiom.
To install Axiom from a Linux repository, type:
sudo apt-get install axiom axiom-tex axiom-test axiom-source axiom-doc axiom-graphics
It is possible to use Texmacs as a frontend to Axiom. The great advantage of TexMacs is that it provides conveniently readable mathematical typesetting.
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Some newer Linux distributions do not provide installable packages for TexMacs. The reason is that TexMacs requires Guile 1.18, which is considered obsolete in some distributions. |
sudo apt-get install texmacs
TexMacs has to be fetched from this site: TexMacs on Linux
Ready to install packages for Centos, Debian, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Open Suse and ubuntu. For Bebian and Ubuntu a repository is provided, too.
Recommendation:
If possible, use either Debain or Ubuntu and take advantage of the possibility to access a repository.
Alt-x run-axiom