Re: Installing mathematica for linux
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- 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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