From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 6:28:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AF6937B71E for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de) Received: (qmail 54262 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2001 14:28:00 -0000 Received: from merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (131.220.161.121) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 14:28:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 1915 invoked by uid 145); 23 Mar 2001 14:28:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 14:28:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:28:00 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Conrad To: Grzegorz Czaplinski Cc: Subject: Re: Mathematica on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <20010323151939.A51172@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:27:16PM +0100, Jan Conrad wrote: > > We have Mathematica 4 running without problems on FreeBSD 4.1.1 and > > 4.3BETA > > > > It just works great! > > We only had to brandelf the binaries to linux > > > > ciao > > Jan > Nice to hear that. ;) Would you be so kind and give me a hand in installing > mathematica? Did you do that on your own? I have a problem with installing > 3.0 on 4.2. > Thanks in advance, > /gregory > Here comes everything I did (for mathematica version 4) have fun Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #I have an extra partition for mathematica: /ext1 #The old mathematica fonts (v3) were installed under #/usr/local/mathematica, I did not want to delete them cd /ext1 mkdir cd mathematica cd /usr/local mv mathematica mathematica.fonts ln -s /ext1/mathematica mount /cdrom # about 190MB: cp -rp /cdrom/Unix/ /ext1/cd/ cd ext1 chown -R root.wheel cd chmod 700 cd # brand the binaries (see brandelf.1): brandelf -t Linux /ext1/cd/Files/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/* brandelf -t Linux /ext1/cd/Files/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux/* brandelf -t Linux /ext1/cd/Files/SystemFiles/Installation/Binaries/Linux/* # install: cd /ext1/cd/Installers/Linux/ ./MathInstaller # top dir: /usr/local/mathematica # d : default installation # s : skip password installation # exec dir: /usr/local/bin # mathid: cd /ext1/cd/Files/SystemFiles/Installation/Binaries/Linux ./mathinfo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message