This section describes the process of installing the Linux® version of Mathematica® 5.X onto a FreeBSD system. Mathematica® is a commercial, computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields. It is available from Wolfram Research.
First, tell FreeBSD that Mathematica®'s Linux® binaries use the Linux® Application Binary Interface ABI. The easiest way to do this is to set the default ELF brand to Linux® for all unbranded binaries with the command:
#
sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand=3
FreeBSD will now assume that unbranded ELF binaries use the Linux® ABI which should allow the installer to execute from the CDROM.
Copy the MathInstaller
to the hard
drive:
#
mount /cdrom
#
cp /cdrom/Unix/Installers/Linux/MathInstaller /localdir/
In this file, replace /bin/sh
in
the first line with /compat/linux/bin/sh
.
This ensures that the installer is executed by the Linux®
version of sh(1). Next, replace all occurrences of
Linux)
with FreeBSD)
using a text editor or the script below in the next section.
This tells the Mathematica®
installer, to treat FreeBSD as a Linux®-like operating
system. Invoking MathInstaller
should now
install Mathematica®.
The shell scripts that
Mathematica® created during
installation have to be modified before use. When using
/usr/local/bin
as the directory
for the Mathematica®
executables, symlinks in this directory will point to files
called math
,
mathematica
,
Mathematica
, and
MathKernel
. In each of these, replace
Linux)
with FreeBSD)
using a text editor or the following shell script:
When Mathematica® is started
for the first time, it will ask for a password. If a password
had not yet been obtained from Wolfram Research, run
mathinfo
in the installation directory to
obtain the “machine ID”. This machine ID is
based solely on the MAC address of the first Ethernet card,
as the copy of Mathematica® cannot
run on different machines.
When registering with Wolfram Research, provide the “machine ID” and they will respond with a corresponding password consisting of groups of numbers.
Mathematica® uses some special
fonts to display characters not present in any of the standard
font sets. Xorg requires these
fonts to be installed locally. This means that these fonts
need to be copied from the CDROM or from a host with
Mathematica® installed to the
local machine. These fonts are normally stored in
/cdrom/Unix/Files/SystemFiles/Fonts
on the CDROM, or /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts
on the 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 the fonts into one of the
existing font directories in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts
then
running mkfontdir(1) within the directory containing the
new fonts.
The second way to do this is to copy the directories to
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts
:
#
cd /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts
#
mkdir X
#
mkdir MathType1
#
cd /cdrom/Unix/Files/SystemFiles/Fonts
#
cp X/* /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/X
#
cp Type1/* /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/MathType1
#
cd /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/X
#
mkfontdir
#
cd ../MathType1
#
mkfontdir
Now add the new font directories to the font path:
#
xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/X
#
xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/MathType1
#
xset fp rehash
When using the Xorg server,
these font directories can be loaded automatically by adding
them to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
.
If /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
does not already exist, change the name of the MathType1
directory in the
example above to Type1
.
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