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<\/p>\n
“The installer was unable to check for a valid password file. Your Mathematica installation may be incomplete or corrupted.”<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Anyway…I now have 6.0.2 installed and running so expect a breakdown of the new features soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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