[Maxima] Installing 5.12.0 on Linux

[Navneeth Chandrasekaran]

I downloaded the the tar.gz package from sf.net and tried to install maxima
on Ubuntu. I extracted the files to a folder, but when I typed ./configure
from the maxima folder, I got a 'No such file or directory'. Just in case,
here are the last few lines from untarring process...

maxima-5.12.0/share/contrib/diffequations/tests/rtestode_murphy_1_2.mac
maxima-5.12.0/share/contrib/diffequations/tests/rtestode_kamke_2_4.mac
maxima-5.12.0/share/contrib/diffequations/tests/rtestode_kamke_1_1.mac
tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Could these errors have anything to with the problem?

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Navneeth
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