Mathematica
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Installation
Mathematica 6
Mounting iso
One way to mount the Mathematica .iso is to create /media/iso and add the following line to the fstab:
/<location/of/mathematica.iso> /media/iso iso9660 exec,ro,user,noauto,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0
Now you can mount it with:
mount /media/iso
Running the Installer
You can start the installer by navigating to:
/Unix/Installer
Run ./MathInstaller with:
sh ./MathInstaller
Note: If you do not place the sh in front, then you will get an error about a bad interpreter
Fonts
Add the directories containing Type1 and BDF fonts to your FontPath.
Troubleshooting
If you have font rendering problems where certain symbols don't show up (i.e. "/" appears as a square), try uninstalling the package "mathematica-fonts".
Mathematica 7
Mathematica 7 is much easier to install.
tar xf Mathematica-7.0.1.tar.gz cd Unix/Installer ./MathInstaller
Follow instructions.