Mathematica?

Aciel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 91

Has anyone written an ebuild for Mathematica? Obviously, I need to buy a license; but I notice Wolfram only supports RedHat and a few other uberlinuxen.

I've tried Googling, etc. Only see Mathematica-fonts.

Help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Isomorph · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Denmark

If your just looking for a computer algebra system.

There is a few in /usr/portage/sci-mathematics your can use.

I use mupad myself.

mark_alec · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:14 am Post subject:

You could take a look at bug #100588, however it looks as though that bug is now dead.

If you want to learn how to create your own ebuild, you can read the Gentoo Development Guide and use the ebuild from the bug as a starting point, reading the comments from ciaranm for ways of improving it.
_________________
www.gentoo.org.au || #gentoo-au

massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1046 Location: Austria

I simply installed Mathematica in my local /home/opt/ directory; works without any problems.
_________________
Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Aciel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 91

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 6609

The freeware equivalent I believe is scilab (in portage).

massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1046 Location: Austria

cantao · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 166

Hi Aciel!

You can try Maxima. I have used it for a few simple symbolic calculations and it seems pretty good.

Try

GenKreton · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject:

I, also use Maxima in place of Maple/Mathematica for my courses. Though it does not conform to precisely the same syntax, it is a decent replacement. I tend to get more use out of Octave though, which is essentially the same syntax as Matlab (another program I am supposed to use).

Aciel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 91

I tried to use Octave as a replacement for Matlab, but all the things we were using it for involved toolkits not available in Octave. =(

cantao · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 166

Hi Aciel!

What kinds of things are you trying to do with Octave? With more information we can - hopefully - help you better.

Cheer, Cantão!

Naib · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:26 am Post subject:

You cant really compare Mathmatica (I personally prefer Maple) with Matlab/Octave

Both are completely different programs

For a potential replacement to Maple/Mathmatica there is MuPAD (in portage) it is pretty good, doesn't give pretty results (effectivly ASCII art) but same syntax as Maple
_________________