Mathematica 5 installation

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:48:47PM -0800, jre9 at humboldt.edu wrote:
> 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)

FYI, the best way to convert scripts associated with linux binaries is
often to replace the #!/bin/sh in them with #!/compat/linux/bin/sh.
This causes them to run with the right paths so they find things under
/compat/linux.

-- Brooks

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