Mathematica 5 installation - updated

[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:54:20PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:58:40PM +0100, Boris Hollas wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have some comments regarding your changes:
> 
> > 
> >    #[1]FreeBSD Handbook [2]Linux Binary Compatibility [3]Installation
> >    [4]Installing Maple
> > 
> >                      FreeBSD Handbook
> >    [5]Prev Chapter 10 Linux Binary Compatibility [6]Next
> >    ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > 10.3 Installing Mathematica?
> > 
> >    Updated for Mathematica 5 by Boris Hollas.
> > 
> >    This document describes the process of installing the Linux version of
> >    Mathematica? 5 onto a FreeBSD system.
> 
> May we keep from the current section:
> 
> "The Linux version of Mathematica runs perfectly under FreeBSD however
> the binaries shipped by Wolfram need to be branded so that FreeBSD knows
> to use the Linux ABI to execute them."
> ?

In my experience, branding isn't actually required.

I've actually got a port in perforce that is most of what you need to
do a basic Mathematica 5.1 install (minus the font stuff since I'm
actually running Grid Mathematica on a cluster).  If there's intrest,
I'll work on polishing it and get is committed.

-- Brooks

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