| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/mathematica.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | mathematica |
| Description: | A computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing with offline documentation. |
| Upstream URL: | http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/ |
| Licenses: | LicenseRef-WolframMathematicaLicenseAgreement |
| Submitter: | Feanor12 |
| Maintainer: | JP-Ellis (marmis) |
| Last Packager: | marmis |
| Votes: | 80 |
| Popularity: | 0.45 |
| First Submitted: | 2011-03-03 21:27 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-01-26 05:16 (UTC) |
@RunAndTumble I did that for a short while (as @kjslag mentioned) due to a font-related bug. I have contemplated of switching entirely to system dependencies, but given we don't have access to any of the source, they may require specific version of libraries which aren't the same as the system versions (in particular, I would expect quite a few outdated libraries to be included).
You are free to try and modify the PKGBUILD and remove all bundled libraries and instead use system libraries.
I currently get the error
Installation failed. See
/home/will/.cache/yay/mathematica/pkg/mathematica/opt/Mathematica/InstallErrors.
-> Errors related to 'xdg-icon-resource' and 'xdg-desktop-menu' are to be expected during Mathematica's installation.
-> Fixing symbolic links
/home/will/.cache/yay/mathematica/PKGBUILD: line 112: cd: /home/will/.cache/yay/mathematica/pkg/mathematica/opt/Mathematica/Executables: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...
error making: %!s(func() string=0x55cf50e1fbb0)
At the command line output. There is no content in /home/will/.cache/yay/mathematica/pkg/mathematica/opt/Mathematica/InstallErrors, though that file does exist.
@RunAndTumble Although bundling libraries has fixed a bug in the past, it also has the potential to create new bugs. Wolfram supposedly sometimes modifies some of the bundled libraries and they do not support linking to system libraries. If you want to use system libraries, you can remove or rename the bundled library files that you do not want to use.
@JP-Ellis
What are the chances to get rid of the bundled components by simply linking to the system ones?
Has anyone run into the following error while installing 12.0.0?
mkdir: cannot create directory '/applications-merged': Permission denied
It seems as though the installer is trying to write to actual system root (at least, from the error message) as opposed to the root of pkg/
12.1.1 was released earlier this month: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/quick-revision-history.html
Why is this flagged out-of-date? I don't see any new releases.
@bryango I think the -mesa option tells Mathematica to tell it's bundled Qt to use mesa llvmpipe to render graphics on the CPU.
@kjslag Yes! I can confirm both issues (segfault for 12.0 and blank 3D for 12.1) are gone with mesa. However, 11.3 works fine with OpenGL and displays better graphics (with less aliasing). It seems that 12+ is somehow incompatible with system's OpenGL implementation, which, I think (at least for me), is also mesa; by searching through my installed packages with keyword OpenGL, I find that the only related package is mesa v20.0.6. Hence I believe there might be conflicts betweeen the bundled mesa and system mesa. Weird since it worked fine in 11.3.
References: Mathematica documentation for RenderingOptions:
"Mesa" use the bundled Mesa implementation of OpenGL, available on all systems
"OpenGL" use the system's OpenGL driver, available only on non-Windows systems
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marmis commented on 2024-12-24 03:37 (UTC)
mathematicaandmathematica-lighthave been updated to 14.1. Matematica is being rebranded to WolframApp or just Wolfram. Because of that, you might have to update your current configuration according to Upgrading from Mathematica to Wolfram:$UserBaseDirectoryis now~/.Wolfram(you may need tomv ~/.Mathematica ~/.Wolfram)MATHINITis nowWOLFRAMNB_INIT(for additional arguments to Wolfram)MATHEMATICA_BASEis nowWOLFRAM_BASE(for custom$BaseDirectory)MATHEMATICA_USERBASEis nowWOLFRAM_USERBASE(for custom$UserBaseDirectory)JP-Ellis commented on 2022-10-08 00:22 (UTC) (edited on 2023-08-19 12:56 (UTC) by JP-Ellis)
Wolfram offers two bundles for Mathematica: one with offline docs included, and one which relies on online docs. I have created corresponding version of the Mathematica package in the AUR:
mathematica: As this package has historically always included offline docs, it will continue to do so now. As of 13.1.0, the package takes up around 14.1GiB with all documentation.mathematica-light: For those people who want a small package and/or want to use online docs, I have created this package which uses Wolfram's online-docs bundling of Mathematica. As of 13.3, the light version takes up around 7.2GiB.