Re: transferring an equation from maxima to octave

[Nicholas Jankowski]

. However, when I load the
package symbolic, octave gives me this error :
Symbolic pkg v2.7.1: error: Cannot run the Python executable "python"
   ...

Octaves symbolic package relies on Python. You just have Python installed and configured properly. If you are on Windows, the package maintainer created a separate symbolic package that includes a standalone version of Python, so you don't need to worry about separate installs.