This tells the runtime linker ( ld) to use the threading and other support libraries expected by Mathematica. The work around is to set an environment variable before launching Mathematica: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

You have an SMP machine if /proc/cpuinfo lists more than one processor. There is a bug in Mathematica 5.1 (possibly others) where certain functions take a long time or hang the Mathematica Kernel on SMP machines. Change /dev/shm to, say, /tmp or ~/tmp if you're concerned. This means that it's fast, but also can't handle huge sound files. Sound.m uses /dev/shm as a temporary directory. The sound.m file is pretty easy to follow. If you don't like aRts, by all means use a different command to play the sounds. If you put it in init.m, then you'll probably want to suppress any error messages like this artswrapper -s 2 >& /dev/null & The command to start aRts could be placed in init.m (personally, I start it in ~/.xsession). Then add the following to ~/.Mathematica/Kernel/init.m Get This will make it so you no longer have to run ToString] '.wav' Simply run the commands below:Ĭd /usr/local/Wolfram/5.1/AddOns/StandardPackagesįor i in `find -name init.m | sed s/.//` do mkdir -p ~/.Mathematica/Autoload/`dirname $i` cp $i ~/.Mathematica/Autoload/`dirname $i` done If, like me, you think that these should always be available, it is easy to make it so. Examples include the Graphics and LinearAlgebra packages. There are also a number of 'packages' that can be manually loaded to get additional functions. Mathematica has a certain core set of functionality that is automatically available. You may need to restart gnome to get the fonts working properly. It ends installing Mathematica in /usr/local, and it creates a symbolic link /usr/bin/mathematica. To solve this simply run the installer with the sh command sudo sh MathInstallerĪlternatively you can copy the Linux installer to a temporary directory and run Math Installer: mkdir -p /tmp/Mathematica/InstallersĬp -r /cdrom/Unix/Installers/Linux /tmp/Mathematica/InstallersĪfter that, the script asks a series of questions, including the licensing information. Math Installer will not run from the CD since, by default, ubuntu mounts CDs with the noexec option. Mathematica has an installer named Math Installer. Mathematica is not free software, see for alternatives. Numlock / Alt / Ctrl / Backspace Problems.

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