In karmic, maxima depends on libreadline5, so having maxima, but not libreadline5, installed seems strange to me.
Could you please post the output of "apt-cache policy maxima libreadline5"?
In karmic, maxima depends on libreadline5, so having maxima, but not libreadline5, installed seems strange to me.
Could you please post the output of "apt-cache policy maxima libreadline5"?