First attempt at Mathematica install ... failure

[noshellswill]

Gents:

Running U_5.10 ... my first attempt to install Mathematica failed badly.
Inserting the CD and asserting the installer_ BASH_script resulted in an
error message:

" ...unable to execute, bad interpreter, permission denied..."

This was after I < chmod 777...> everything in sight!

Then I discovered my CDROM_drive was physically LOCKED closed. Unopenable.
Eventually I found an "open" command which allowed me to retrieve the CD.

Not a promising start.

nss
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[Andreas Freytag]

Am Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:12:55 +0000 schrieb noshellswill:

> Gents:
>
> Running U_5.10 ... my first attempt to install Mathematica failed badly.
> Inserting the CD and asserting the installer_ BASH_script resulted in an
> error message:
>
> " ...unable to execute, bad interpreter, permission denied..."
>
> This was after I < chmod 777...> everything in sight!

try "sh script"

[noshellswill]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:12:44 +0100, Andreas Freytag wrote:

> Am Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:12:55 +0000 schrieb noshellswill:
>

>> Gents:
>>
>> Running U_5.10 ... my first attempt to install Mathematica failed badly.
>> Inserting the CD and asserting the installer_ BASH_script resulted in an
>> error message:
>>
>> " ...unable to execute, bad interpreter, permission denied..."
>>
>> This was after I < chmod 777...> everything in sight!

>
> try "sh script"

Yep:

< sudo sh ./MathInstaller > did the trick. At least now the prgram CLAIMS
it's installed. Somewhere. I have yet to find the proggie ... it certainly
didn't take-the-trouble to produce and "assertable" icon on my desktop,
nor does it appear in my list of applications. Yep I tried re-booting!

More fishing around ...

nss
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[noshellswill]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:56:40 +0000, noshellswill wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:12:44 +0100, Andreas Freytag wrote:
>

>> Am Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:12:55 +0000 schrieb noshellswill:
>>

>>> Gents:
>>>
>>> Running U_5.10 ... my first attempt to install Mathematica failed badly.
>>> Inserting the CD and asserting the installer_ BASH_script resulted in an
>>> error message:
>>>
>>> " ...unable to execute, bad interpreter, permission denied..."
>>>
>>> This was after I < chmod 777...> everything in sight!

>>
>> try "sh script"

>
> Yep:
>
> < sudo sh ./MathInstaller > did the trick. At least now the prgram CLAIMS
> it's installed. Somewhere. I have yet to find the proggie ... it certainly
> didn't take-the-trouble to produce and "assertable" icon on my desktop,
> nor does it appear in my list of applications. Yep I tried re-booting!
>
> More fishing around ...
>
> nss
> ***********

ooops ... :

typing < mathematica > in a terminal enables the program GUI. That's good
news , since the (site license) program is worth 4x the current value of
the fairly modern 2-Ghz system it runs on. Score 1_point for *nix

Hope to test Mathematica this week for "tweeks" suggested by Ubuntu NGs.

nss
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