Maxima, a Computer Algebra System Maxima, a Computer Algebra SystemYou can download files from the Sourceforge download page.
The file release manager at Sourceforge has files for all versions and all releases of Maxima.
You want maxima-x.y.z.exe, a self-contained installer program.
For an installation from RPM, you want at least two files: (1) maxima-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm, which contains scripts and documents, and (2) maxima-exec-<lisp version>-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm, which contains an executable Lisp image. You may also want (3) maxima-xmaxima-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm, the Xmaxima graphical user interface, but it is optional.
The maxima and maxima-exec RPMs depend on each other. Specify both in the rpm command:
rpm -ivh maxima-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm maxima-exec-<lisp version>-x.y.z-n.i386.rpm
For an installation from source code, you want maxima-x.y.z.tar.gz or maxima-x.y.z-n.src.rpm. But you knew that.
Here are some notes that might be helpful. README.lisps tells something about Lisp implementations, and README.rpms tells something about RPM's.
To rebuild from the source, you want maxima-x.y.z.tar.gz.
You can obtain the latest development code at the Sourceforge CVS page for Maxima.