## 22.3 Installing Mathematica® 

***Updated for Mathematica 4.X by Murray Stokely. ******Merged with work by Bojan Bistrovic. ***

This document describes the process of installing the Linux version of  **Mathematica® 4.X**  onto a DragonFly system.

 **Warning:** This description applies to FreeBSD, for which it was originally written. This may or may not apply to DragonFly at this point; while FreeBSD 4.x features usually translate over to DragonFly well, your mileage may vary.

The Linux version of  **Mathematica**  runs perfectly under DragonFly however the binaries shipped by Wolfram need to be branded so that DragonFly knows to use the Linux ABI to execute them.

The Linux version of  **Mathematica**  or  **Mathematica for Students**  can be ordered directly from Wolfram at http://www.wolfram.com/.

### 22.3.1 Branding the Linux Binaries 

The Linux binaries are located in the `Unix` directory of the  **Mathematica**  CDROM distributed by Wolfram. You need to copy this directory tree to your local hard drive so that you can brand the Linux binaries with [brandelf(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command#brandelf&section1) before running the installer:

    
    # mount /cdrom
    # cp -rp /cdrom/Unix/ /localdir/
    # brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/*
    # brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux/*
    # brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Installation/Binaries/Linux/*
    # brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Graphics/Binaries/Linux/*
    # brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Converters/Binaries/Linux/*
    # brandelf -t Linux /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/LicenseManager/Binaries/Linux/mathlm
    # cd /localdir/Installers/Linux/
    # ./MathInstaller


Alternatively, you can simply set the default ELF brand to Linux for all unbranded binaries with the command:

    
    # sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand=3


This will make DragonFly assume that unbranded ELF binaries use the Linux ABI and so you should be able to run the installer straight from the CDROM.

### 22.3.2 Obtaining Your Mathematica Password 

Before you can run  **Mathematica**  you will have to obtain a password from Wolfram that corresponds to your ***machine ID***.

Once you have installed the Linux compatibility runtime libraries and unpacked  **Mathematica**  you can obtain the ***machine ID*** by running the program `mathinfo` in the installation directory. This machine ID is based solely on the MAC address of your first Ethernet card.

    
    # cd /localdir/Files/SystemFiles/Installation/Binaries/Linux
    # mathinfo
    disco.example.com 7115-70839-20412


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. You can then enter this information when you attempt to run  **Mathematica**  for the first time exactly as you would for any other  **Mathematica**  platform.

### 22.3.3 Running the Mathematica Frontend over a Network 

 **Mathematica**  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**  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)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command#mkfontdir&section1&manpath=XFree86+4.3.0) 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  **XFree86™**  server, you can have these font directories loaded automatically by adding them to your `XF86Config` file.

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`.



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