Mathematica 5 installation

jre9_at_humboldt.edu
Date: 01/28/04

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    Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:48:47 -0800 (PST)
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    The handbook includes information for installing Mathematica 4, but I have
    Mathematica 5 and found the handbook's guidelines to be entirely
    irrelevant to version 5. So here's how I finally figured out how to
    install version 5:

    First, the binaries are already branded properly (SVR4). So, mount the cd
    and run the installer. I installed to /compat/linux/usr/Wolfram/..., and
    put the binary links in /compat/linux/usr/bin . However, the little
    scripts (in /compat/linux/usr/bin) that start Mathematica don't work for
    FreeBSD: they report 'unknown OS'. If you fudge that part, so that it
    reports 'Linux', it simply doesn't work... perhaps something to do with
    the paths coded into the script. Anyway, I found it much simpler to roll
    my own script and stick it in my bin directory:
    (note: "+" means continue the line)

    #!/bin/sh

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
    + /compat/linux/usr/Wolfram/Mathematica
    + /5.0/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux"

    exec /compat/linux/usr/
     + Wolfram/Mathematica/5.0/
     + SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/
     + Linux/Mathematica -topDirectory
     + "/compat/linux/usr/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.0" "$@"

    as for the fonts, which must be loaded before the frontend is loaded, they
    reside in "/compat/linux/usr/
     + Wolfram/Mathematica/5.0/
     + SystemFiles/Fonts/Type 1"
    and ".../Fonts/BDF"

    I put these into XF86Config, but if you want to mirror the original
    Mathematica loading script, you can put this before the exec statement in
    the script:

    xset fp+ "[the first directory listed above]"
    xset fp+ "[the second directory listed above]"
    xset fp rehash

    I hope this is useful to others.
    -josh

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