How to Install Maple 9.5 in Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty

[cptcrunch]

A howto to install Maple 9.5 in Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty

Open up a console and insert the following commands...

mkdir ~/installer

cd /media/cdrom

cp -R Linux ~/installer

cp installMapleLinuxSU ~/installer

cd ~/installer/Linux/Disk1/InstData/VM

mv LinuxInstaller.bin LinuxInstaller.bin.pak

cat LinuxInstaller.bin.pak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > LinuxInstaller.bin

cd ~/installer

sudo sh installMapleLinuxSU

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s /root/maple9.5

NOTE: To launch maple just type in "xmaple &" in the console (without the quotes).

Enjoy your new computer algebra system

[cptcrunch]

Re: How to Install Maple 9.5 in Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty

sorry the last command should be

sudo ln -s /root/maple9.5/bin/{x,}maple /usr/local/bin

[askrieger]

Re: How to Install Maple 9.5 in Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty

Two questions:

Q1: Where do you get Maple 9.5? Or Maple 10?

Q2: You seem to have installed Maple under your /root/ directory but the guide at the Ubuntu Community Help Wiki puts it under /opt/, which seems more reasonable to me. Is there an advantage I'm missing to putting Maple in /root/ ?

[cptcrunch]

Re: How to Install Maple 9.5 in Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty

Hi askrieger,

Answer to Q1. You need to purchase a copy of the software. I own a copy that has both windows and Linux versions of maple.

Answer to Q2. Yes you are correct, putting the install under /opt/ seems more reasonable. So in the above how to, just replace root with opt.

Thanks.