Re: Can not run Mathematica 6.0.3 on Fedora 9
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- Subject: [mg91107] Re: Can not run Mathematica 6.0.3 on Fedora 9
- From: paul.knowles at gmail.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 05:06:29 -0400 (EDT)
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On Aug 5, 12:28 pm, Paul Smith <phh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Aug 5,9:03 am, kbkb <kbkb... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Aug 3, 5:33 am, Paul Smith <phh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>> I have just installed Mathematica 6.0.3 onFedora9, but when I start
>>> it, I get the following error:
>>> An error has occurred while Mathematica was starting up. Mathematica
>>> may not function properly until this problem is resolved. You may
>>> choose to continue anyway, but you could encounter additional
>>> problem.
>>> Any ideas?
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Paul
>
>> Same here. It was working until I did "yum update" today....
>Someone, meanwhile, has suggested to me to install
>xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch
>that solved the problem.
>Paul
The above fonts were needed, but no joy came from them alone:
The following has done the trick:
yum -y install xorg-x11-xfs-utils xorg-x11-xfs
chkconfig --levels 345 xfs on
cd /etc/X11/fontpath.d/
ln -s /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/BDF
mathematica-bdf
ln -s /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1
mathematica-type1
ln -s /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/TTF
mathematica-ttf
service xfs start
Add a fontpath to the Files section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, e.g.,
Section "Files"
# Use a font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
restart X (reboot for those unsure of how to restart X as needed)
then things worked.
cheers,
.p.