Re: Mathematica on Debian
Hannuman Bull wrote:
Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
Has anyone successfully installed Mathematica 5.1 on Debian? Whilst
I just had Mathematica 5.1 installed on my Debian Sarge x86 PC last
week.
I'm on Woody 3.0, kernel 2.4.19, which perhaps expalins why your system
admin had less trouble than me.
Mathematica seems to only officially support Suse and Redhat
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/platforms.html
I think I'll wait until Sarge is released as stable, then upgrade. I
have access to Mathematica on several machines, so I'm not stuck.
I've never attempted to install Matlab on linux - only Windoze and
SPARC. The latter allways seems to present me problems with the license
manager. R13 would not work due to what Mathwords described as "a bug in
Solaris" and what Sun described as "an enhancement". The only solution I
could find was on a Japanese web site. Now, when I upgraded from 13 to
14, it managed to stop the 13 working, despite the fact I'd put them in
separate directories. One of the license files to gets copied to
/etc/somewhere - even though I installed it on /usr/local, it overwrote
hte old license file. Luckily R14 seems OK, so I don't need to mess
about restoring from tape.
--
Dr. David Kirkby PhD CEng MIEE,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
Mallet Place Engineering Building,
Gower St,
University College London,
London WC1E 6BT.
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