2-node-supercomputer.net 2017-06-04
So I finally decided to buy Mathematica 11
at the
student price through my university. When it comes to indefinite
integrals, I’ve found Mathematica
to be more reliable than
my favorite opensource CAD, SymPy
. (Yeah, there are others
I haven’t tried sufficiently, yet…)
So, anyway… I got it, so now I gotta install it on my archlinux laptop, right?
Thankfully, there is an AUR package for Mathematia. I use
yaourt
as a frontend to AUR. Since Mathematica is a large
package, yaourt needs to be instructed to use a temporary directory that
is on disk, not tmpfs mounted. I do this:
$ TMPDIR=/var/tmp yaourt -S mathematica
Then, edit the PKGBUILD file so as not to install all the documentation, since I use the web most of the time anyway. Sure, I may sometimes get in trouble without internet. Whatever.
While editing the PKGBUILD, it is also important to copy over the
Mathematica install file. Since I use VIM, I do :shell
, and
create a symlink
$ ln -s /path/to/Mathematica_11.1.1_Install.sh
After exiting the install, just need to say yes a few times, and let the scripts do their work.