From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 22:24:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C8D16A402 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:24:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5EC13C491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:24:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from doc.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HG0dm-0005Ba-6S; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:24:18 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HG0gO-000EWB-Hu; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:27:00 +0300 To: References: <20070210163139.CNN29212@ms1.nss.udel.edu> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:27:00 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20070210163139.CNN29212@ms1.nss.udel.edu> (carl@udel.edu's message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:31:39 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: <58736539@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2 and MAPLE-9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:24:20 -0000 On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:31:39 -0500 (EST) wrote: > Dear FreeBSD: > Not entirely sure if this is the correct list to post this, but, I've > recently installed FreeBSD-6.2 on a Pentium 3 box with 1-GB of memory. This list is for -current users. A more relevant list is freebsd-stable. And the best one is freebsd-emulation. You may consider searching the archieve and then asking there. > I've tried to install all programs that I was able to run with > FreeBSD-6.1, but the only one that gives me a difficulty so far is the > mathematics package, MAPLE. There are some difficulties with doing an > installation (one needs to definitely have JDK-1.4 installed, and not > just linux-JDK-1.4). But even then, after doing the recommended fixes > as found in the FreeBSD manual, I still get: > [carl@giediprime ~]$ cd maple9/bin [carl@giediprime ~/maple9/bin]$ > ./maple maple: could not start server > This particular problem has some roots in the still current difficulty > of running MAPLE using Fedora Core 4 (or higher). I point this out, > in that the package/port "linux-base" went from being based on Red-Hat > 8 in FreeBSD-6.1 to being based on Fedora Core 4 in FreeBSD-6.2. I > was wondering if anyone else has run across problems with MAPLE, and > what they have done to get around the problem. I have translated over > from FreeBSD-6.1 the "linux-base" based on Red-Hat 8, and have gotten > MAPLE-9 to work in text mode, but cannot get the GUI to work. To get > that to work, it world seem that I have a great many packages/ports to > bring over from FreeBSD-6.1, and was hoping there might be an easier > method. Anyone have any alternative thoughts? Thanks for your help! WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve