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Re: Does Mathematica run on Mandrake Linux?

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  • Subject: [mg39428] Re: Does Mathematica run on Mandrake Linux?
  • From: Bas Zoetekouw <bas at o2w.nl>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:25:23 -0500 (EST)
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Boris wrote in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica:
>  I have Mandrake Linux 9.0 (with gcc 3.2, kernel 2.4.19) installed. Will 
>  Mathematica run on my system?

I guess it will.  The Mathematica binaries are statically linked, so the
exaclt libraries your distribution contains should matter at all.

>  What other Linux-distributions are known to work with Mathematica?

I've got it running on Debian, and I've seen it running on SuSE.

I had some problems getting it installed directly from the CD though.  I
solved it by copying the CD to my harddisk, and installing from there.

-- 
Kind regards,
  Bas Zoetekouw               ``Si l'on sait exactement ce que l'on va
                                faire, a quoi bon le faire?''
  bas at o2w.nl                                           Pablo Picasso


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