Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:58:40 +0100 From: Boris Hollas <hollas@informatik.uni-ulm.de> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Mathematica 5 installation - updated Message-ID: <20050302175840.06b4031f.hollas@informatik.uni-ulm.de> In-Reply-To: <20050302134214.GI42515@nosferatu.blackend.org> References: <20050302143958.1483e0b9.hollas@informatik.uni-ulm.de> <20050302134214.GI42515@nosferatu.blackend.org>
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Hello,
this is the updated section "Installing Mathematica" of the handbook.
In the text, I have included a small shell script that makes
installation easier. However, I don't know how to format this in html,
so this needs formatting.
I have not updated the section "10.3.4 Running the Mathematica Frontend
over a Network" since I use Mathematica locally. Maybe this should be
indicated as I don't know if this section still applies for Mathematica
5.
Please tell me what happened to the text.
Regards,
Boris
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#[1]FreeBSD Handbook [2]Linux Binary Compatibility [3]Installation
[4]Installing Maple
FreeBSD Handbook
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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.
The Linux version of Mathematica or Mathematica for Students can be
ordered directly from Wolfram at [7]http://www.wolfram.com/.
10.3.1 Running the Mathematica Installer
First, you have to tell FreeBSD that Mathematica's Linux binaries use
the Linux ABI. The easiest way to do so is to set the default ELF
brand to Linux for all unbranded binaries with the command
# sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand=3
This will make FreeBSD assume that unbranded ELF binaries use the
Linux ABI and so you should be able to run the installer straight from
the CDROM.
For the next step, you must have Linux binary compatibility enabled.
You can find out if the Linux kernel module is already loaded by
# kldstat
If the Linux kernel module does not show up, load it with
# kldload linux
Now, copy the file MathInstaller to your hard drive and replace
/bin/sh in the first line by /compat/linux/bin/sh. This makes sure
that the installer is executed by the Linux version of sh. Next,
replace all occurrences of Linux) by FreeBSD) with a text editor or
the script below. This tells the Mathematica installer, who calls
uname -s, to determine the operating system, to treat FreeBSD as a
Linux-like operating system. Invoking MathInstaller will now install
Mathematica.
10.3.2 Modifying the Mathematica Executables
The shell scripts that Mathematica created during installation have to
be modified before you can use them. If you chose /usr/local/bin as
the directory to place the Mathematica executables in, you will find
symlinks in this directory to files called math, mathematica,
Mathematica, and MathKernel. In each of these, replace Linux) by
FreeBSD) with a text editor or the following shell script: #!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/bin for i in math mathematica Mathematica MathKernel do
sed 's/Linux)/FreeBSD)/g' $i > $i.tmp sed
's/\/bin\/sh/\/compat\/linux\/bin\/sh/g' $i.tmp > $i rm $i.tmp chmod
a+x $i done
10.3.3 Obtaining Your Mathematica Password
When you start Mathematica for the first time, you will be asked for
your password. If you have not yet obtained a password from Wolfram,
run the program mathinfo in the installation directory to obtain your
``machine ID''. This machine ID is based solely on the MAC address of
your first Ethernet card, so you cannot run your copy of Mathematica
on different machines. When you register with Wolfram, either by
email, phone or fax, you will give them the ``machine ID'' and they
will respond with a corresponding password consisting of groups of
numbers.
10.3.4 Running the Mathematica Frontend over a Network
Mathematica uses some special fonts to display characters not present
in any of the standard font sets (integrals, sums, Greek letters,
etc.). The X protocol requires these fonts to be install locally. This
means you will have to copy these fonts from the CDROM or from a host
with Mathematica installed to your local machine. These fonts are
normally stored in /cdrom/Unix/Files/SystemFiles/Fonts on the CDROM,
or /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts on your hard drive. The
actual fonts are in the subdirectories Type1 and X. There are several
ways to use them, as described below.
The first way is to copy them into one of the existing font
directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. This will require editing the
fonts.dir file, adding the font names to it, and changing the number
of fonts on the first line. Alternatively, you should also just be
able to run [8]mkfontdir(1) in the directory you have copied them to.
The second way to do this is to copy the directories to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts:
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
# mkdir X
# mkdir MathType1
# cd /cdrom/Unix/Files/SystemFiles/Fonts
# cp X/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/X
# cp Type1/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MathType1
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/X
# mkfontdir
# cd ../MathType1
# mkfontdir
Now add the new font directories to your font path:
# xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/X
# xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/MathType1
# xset fp rehash
If you are using the XFree86(TM) server, you can have these font
directories loaded automatically by adding them to your XF86Config
file.
If you do not already have a directory called
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, you can change the name of the
MathType1 directory in the example above to Type1.
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This, and other documents, can be downloaded from
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For questions about FreeBSD, read the [14]documentation before
contacting <[15]questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <[16]doc@FreeBSD.org>.
References
1. file://localhost/tmp/index.html
2. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu.html
3. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu-lbc-install.html
4. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu-maple.html
5. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu-lbc-install.html
6. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu-maple.html
7. http://www.wolfram.com/
8. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mkfontdir&sektion=1&manpath=XFree86+4.4.0
9. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu-lbc-install.html
10. file://localhost/tmp/index.html
11. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu-maple.html
12. file://localhost/tmp/linuxemu.html
13. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
14. http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html
15. mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org
16. mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org
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