Mathematica 6.0.2 installation on Ubuntu
Mathematica 6.0.2 was released back on February 25th but I have only just managed to find the time to install it. I tried to install it on a brand new Dell 755 with a very fresh install of Ubuntu but near the end of the install procedure I came across the following error
“The installer was unable to check for a valid password file. Your Mathematica installation may be incomplete or corrupted.”
I had not been given the opportunity to supply it with any licensing information so it looked like there was a problem with the installer itself. Cutting a long story sort, the solution is to use apt to install the package libstdc++5 as follows
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
This is a very common package and I guess that I have not seen this error before because libstdc++5 is automatically installed as a prerequisite for many other Ubuntu applications. Hopefully this little note will be of use to a googler or two.
Anyway…I now have 6.0.2 installed and running so expect a breakdown of the new features soon.
Hi,
I have a FreeBSD 7.0 box and I couldn’t install Mathematica 6 on it. I used to install Mathematica 6 on FreeBSD 6.2 without any problem. Too bad that there is no native BSD/unix Mathematica…
Hi Aaron
I have never used FreeBSD so I couldn’t possibly comment. I would suggest sending a support query to Wolfram – if they get enough queries from the FreeBSD community then maybe support for it will improve. I hope you get something workable soon.
Thanks! That was a very helpful post! I’m going to try your suggestion.
Thanks, you rescued my evening. Last time I googled for at least an hour to find the solution to that error message. Now, a few month later, I was trying to install Mathematica again, and of course, did not remember the name of the package required.
Thanks, this was helpful. Saved me a lot of anguish.
Thank you so much.
It work!