Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

[Brian Stults <bstults@soc.ufl.edu>]

Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Dear People,
>
> I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial
> scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was
> wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that
> Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about the others. I suppose in
> most cases these programs are only available as binaries, so there
> would have to be compatibility between these binaries and the Debian
> shared libraries. Also, most of these commercial programs only support
> the commercial Linux distributions like Redhat/SuSE. If anyone has
> specific information about these programs, please let me know, and for
> simplicity let us assume that I am talking about the most recent
> versions. Thanks.

Stata 7 works perfectly with sarge and sid.

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