On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:48:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The handbook includes information for installing Mathematica 4, but I have > Mathematica 5 and found the handbook's guidelines to be entirely > irrelevant to version 5. So here's how I finally figured out how to > install version 5: > > First, the binaries are already branded properly (SVR4). So, mount the cd > and run the installer. I installed to /compat/linux/usr/Wolfram/..., and > put the binary links in /compat/linux/usr/bin . However, the little > scripts (in /compat/linux/usr/bin) that start Mathematica don't work for > FreeBSD: they report 'unknown OS'. If you fudge that part, so that it > reports 'Linux', it simply doesn't work... perhaps something to do with > the paths coded into the script. Anyway, I found it much simpler to roll > my own script and stick it in my bin directory: > (note: "+" means continue the line)
FYI, the best way to convert scripts associated with linux binaries is often to replace the #!/bin/sh in them with #!/compat/linux/bin/sh. This causes them to run with the right paths so they find things under /compat/linux. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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