calling maple
I am trying to get maple to work inside sage. I have maple installed and in .bashrc I made an alias to run ./maple from where it is installed when I type 'maple' in terminal, and it works fine:
~$ maple
|\^/| Maple 16 (X86 64 LINUX)
._|\| |/|_. Copyright (c) Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc. 2012
\ MAPLE / All rights reserved. Maple is a trademark of
<____ ____> Waterloo Maple Inc.
| Type ? for help.>
But when I run a maple command inside sage, for example
sage: maple('2+2')
it returns a TypeError and tells me that I should install maple. I read the documentation here and it says I should have a script called maple and put it in PATH in order to be able to run maple in sage. What I don't understand is where is the PATH. I tried the sage_root (sage installation folder), and home folder. None seem to be working.
Has anyone got this to work, and how?
Sadly, this does appear to be broken. It looks as if there is a fairly recent fix at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12295 as well as another one at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2120 . Sometimes it seems to depend on the Maple version; Maple 16 is very recent, of course, which looks like part of the issue at those tickets.
Thanks, shall I report this issue?
I'd see whether the fix at #12295 works, though it does seem that your error is different.
As to path, type `sage -sh` to get a Sage environment, and then do `echo $PATH` to see what the path Sage sees is.
Here is the output: "bash: /home/k1/sage5.8/spkg/bin:/home/k1/sage5.8/local/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/k1/.rvm/bin: No such file or directory" But it doesn't mean much to me!