A graphical user interface for Maxima, a powerful computer algebra system
wxMaxima is a graphical user interface for the computer algebra system Maxima: a program that solves mathematical problems by manipulating equations (and outputting the resulting formula), instead of just calculating a number. wxMaxima eases the use of Maxima by making most of its commands available through a menu system and by providing input dialogs for commands that require more than one argument. It also implements its own display engine that outputs mathematical symbols directly instead of depicting them with ASCII characters. wxMaxima also features 2D and 3D inline plots, simple animations, mixing of text and mathematical calculations to create documents, exporting of input and output to TeX, document structuring and a browser for Maxima's manual including command index and full text searching.
Large matrices and keyboard access to output are the main topics of this release, again developed with help from the AI assistant Claude: a matrix too large for the window no longer widens the worksheet, output can be explored part by part with the keyboard, links in text and output can be opened, and an optional MCP server lets AI tools read the worksheet. Plus many fixes, among them a security fix for .wxm files.
Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Nightly build), AppImage, AUR, AUR (Git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Void Linux, Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build)
Runs in a sandbox, but a broad part of it is open — typical for tools that need to manage your files or system. It shows what the app is able to do, not what it does.
| Source | Name | Version | Built by | License | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathub (Flatpak) | wxMaxima | 26.09.0 | — | GPL-2.0-or-later | A graphical user interface for Maxima, a powerful computer algebra system |
| Snap Store | wxmaxima | 26.09.0-0 | — | GPL-2.0+ | A nightly build of wxMaxima, a gui for Maxima, a full-featured CAS. |
| Snap Store (Nightly build) | wxmaxima | 26.09.0-0 | — | GPL-2.0+ | A nightly build of wxMaxima, a gui for Maxima, a full-featured CAS. |
| AppImage | wxMaxima | wxMaxima-23.02.0-1 | — | MIT | <p>Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, matrices and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numerical results by using exact fractions, arbitrary-precision integers and variable-precision floating-point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.</p> |
| AUR | wxmaxima | 26.09.0-1 | — | GPL-2.0-or-later | A wxWidgets GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima |
| AUR (Git build) | wxmaxima-git | 24.11.0.r0.g9898330-1 | — | GPL-2.0-or-later | A document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima |
| Debian | wxmaxima | 24.02.1-1+b2 | Distribution build | — | GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima |
| Ubuntu | wxmaxima | 26.01.0+ds-3 | Distribution build | — | GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima |
| Fedora | wxMaxima | 26.01.0 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Graphical user interface for Maxima |
| Nixpkgs | wxmaxima | 26.09.0 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0 | Cross platform GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima |
| openSUSE | wxMaxima | 26.09.0 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Graphical User Interface for the maxima Computer Algebra System |
| Void Linux | wxMaxima | 20.02.4_3 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Cross-platform GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima |
| Solus | wxmaxima | 25.04.0 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Cross platform GUI for Maxima |
| Gentoo (Candidate build) | wxmaxima | 26.06.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only AND MIT AND Zlib AND Unicode-3.0 | Graphical frontend to Maxima, using the wxWidgets toolkit |
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