Re: What gets put in ~/.Mathematica and why?
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- Subject: [mg122720] Re: What gets put in ~/.Mathematica and why?
- From: A Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 05:54:11 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, > I just fooled around with CUDA on my system for the first time, and in > the process I got the message "Loading from Wolfram Research server" > and it appears that a *lot* of stuff was downloaded. As far as I can > tell it went into my *home* directory, into /home/mike/.Mathematica/ > Paclets. My .Mathematica directory is now, by far, the biggest thing > in my whole directory structure. > > I don't understand why this stuff didn't go into /usr/local/Wolfram. > Now this huge amount of stuff, is going to get backed up every time I > back up my personal directory. This is most probably because usually a regular user usually does not have write permission in /usr/local/Wolfram. You could try whether that stuff will go there if you do it as root, but I don't think it will. I would expect that if you move those directories from /home/mike/.Mathematica to the correct directory within /usr/local/Wolfram that everything will work alright except when an update of the paclet is necessary... > I'm curious if anyone can tell me what makes this (or any given > information) go into .Mathematica in my directory vs the "system" > place. > > If it makes a difference, I'm using Mathematica 8.0.0.0 Home Edition on Fedora > 14 (32 bit) Unfortunately the paclet mechanism is hardly documented at all, there is no obvious or documented way to change that behavior (although I'm almost sure there is a possibility to change it). What you could do is to move the Paclet directory to a place of your choice, make sure you have read and write permissions there and then use a symbolic link in your /home/mike/.Mathematica which points to that location. I have not tested this but would be very surprised if it wouldn't work. You would then collect all the paclet data in a place which would not necessarily be in your personal backup. hth, albert