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.  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:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd maple9/bin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/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!


Best Regards,
Carl
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