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Re: Installing mathematica for linux

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  • Subject: [mg37889] Re: Installing mathematica for linux
  • From: Hendrik van Hees <hees at physik.uni-bielefeld.de>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:44:33 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <ar4ocg$5bk$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Forrest Halford wrote:

>  I am having trouble installing mathematica for linux it and wondered
> if some of you also might use it.
> 
> I put in the cd
> mounted the drive
> went to the installers folder with Konqeror and then to Linux and then
> clicked on Mathinstaller and nothing, and I mean nothing at all happens.
> 
> I tried it logged in as root as well.
> 
> What is up?

Is your CD drive mounted with executable flag (or however this is called). A 
possibility is to use a line like

/dev/cdrom      /media/cdrom    auto    ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
                                                      !^^^^!
in the file /etc/fstab

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