6 gzip -dc maxima-sun4-5.2-bin.tgz | tar xvf -
8 will unpack the binary in /usr/local
10 the Info files in usr/local/lib/maxima-5.2/info/maxima.info*
11 should be installed wherever you keep info files for emacs.
13 It is also possible to make an html version of the info, using