This document describes the process of installing the Linux version of Mathematica(R) 5.X onto a FreeBSD system.
The Linux version of Mathematica(R)
or Mathematica(R) for Students can
be ordered directly from Wolfram at
http://www.wolfram.com/
.
First, you have to tell FreeBSD that Mathematica(R)'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.
Now, copy the file MathInstaller
to
your hard drive:
#
mount /cdrom
#
cp /cdrom/Unix/Installers/Linux/MathInstaller /localdir/
and in this file, 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(1). Next, replace all occurrences of
Linux)
by FreeBSD)
with
a text editor or the script below in the next section. This
tells the Mathematica(R) 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(R).
The shell scripts that
Mathematica(R) 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(R) 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
When you start Mathematica(R)
for the first time, you will be asked for a 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(R) 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.
Mathematica(R) 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(R)
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 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 Xorg server, you can have these font
directories loaded automatically by adding them to your
xorg.conf
file.
For XFree86TM servers,
the configuration file is XF86Config
.
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
.
All FreeBSD documents are available for download at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/doc/
Questions that are not answered by the
documentation may be
sent to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>.
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