fyi, for users of free Mathematica player on linux 64 bit OS
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- Subject: [mg110117] fyi, for users of free Mathematica player on linux 64 bit OS
- From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 02:06:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: nma at 12000.org
This might be useful to some. I found that on Linux 64 bit OS, if you download the Mathematica free player from WRI web site, it is a 32 bit application. After I installed it, and tried to run it, I got the error: /usr/local/Wolfram/MathematicaPlayer/7.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Binaries/Linux/MathematicaPlayer: error while loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory i.e. it is looking for 32 bit version of the library libXmu.so which will be located in /usr/lib, while the 64 bit version is located is already located in /usr/lib64, but that one can't be used. No LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick will work. To get the player to work on linux 64 bit, I needed to install the 32 bit version of this library, which is contained in the package libXmu-devel which I installed using yum package manager. Now the player will come up OK. --Nasser