Re: Mathematica 4.2 on Solaris 6?
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- Subject: [mg36858] Re: Mathematica 4.2 on Solaris 6?
- From: "Dr. David Kirkby" <davek at medphys.ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:55:34 -0400 (EDT)
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Alex Dawson wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone had any luck getting Mathematica 4.2 to work
> on a Sun running Solaris 6?
>
> I get the following error message when starting Mathematica:
>
> ./Mathematica
> ld.so.1: ./Mathematica: fatal: librt.so.1: open failed: No such file or
> directory
> Killed
>
> But "math" works.
>
> Any thoughts on this would be appreciated - even if it's just
> "Solaris 6 sucks - Reinstall with Solaris 8/9". I'd rather not go to the
> trouble of reinstalling the box unless absolutely necessary (It is a
> 270mhz Ultra 5)
I'd be tempted to run 'ldd' and see what libraries it needs. On my Solaris 9
box, with Mathematica 4.2 I see:
wren /usr/local/stow/Mathematica-4.2/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Solaris % ldd
../Mathematica
libXt.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.4
libXext.so.0 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.0
libXmu.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.4
libX11.so.4 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
libnsl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
libsocket.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1
libucb.so.1 => /usr/ucblib/libucb.so.1
librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1
libpthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6
libm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libm.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
libelf.so.1 => /usr/lib/libelf.so.1
libaio.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
libmd5.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1
/usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1
libthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
/usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1
You should be able to find the libraries it's using, and hopefully it might just
be looking in the wrong place, in which case you may be able to create a
symbolic link.
However, if Solaris 2.6 is not supported (I don't know if it is) it is quite
possible it wants a library you don't have, in which case you are stuck unless
you re-install a later OS.
--
Dr. David Kirkby,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
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