Mathematica 7 Installation Errors on Solaris
Paul MacBride
Sun Blade 2000 running Solaris 10 with one 1200MHz processor, but the
installation is failing.
I've reported this to Wolfram Reserach but so far have not received a
response. I have also sent the message to a Mathematica specific
newgroup, but the post has not appeared. I note some Mathematica
questions appear on this newsgroup, so I thought I would ask.
Below are the details of the computer and the error messages.
Would any body have any suggestions on how this might be resolved?
$ uname -a
SunOS ws2 5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
$ cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 27 October 2008
The machine has one 1200 MHz CPU. .
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/128x128/apps: No such
file or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/128x128/apps: No such
file or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/gnome/64x64/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/gnome/64x64/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/gnome/128x128/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/gnome/128x128/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/128x128/apps: No such
file or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/128x128/apps: No such
file or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/now/32x32/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/now/32x32/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/now/64x64/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/now/64x64/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/now/128x128/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/now/128x128/apps: No such file or
directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/redglass/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/redglass/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/redglass/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/redglass/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/redglass/128x128/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/redglass/128x128/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/32x32/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/64x64/apps: No such file
or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/128x128/apps: No such
file or directory
cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/128x128/apps: No such
file or directory
Richard Fateman
> I'm trying to install Mathematica 7.0.1 (it's a trial version) ...
>
> I've reported this to Wolfram Reserach but so far have not received a
> response.
When did you report it? Though since you have a trial version, they may
not help you promptly or at all.
Since the obvious fix is to make it possible to create the directories,
have you tried making those directories yourself?
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Paul MacBride <paulma...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to install Mathematica 7.0.1 (it's a trial version) on a
>Sun Blade 2000 running Solaris 10 with one 1200MHz processor, but the
>installation is failing.
>
>or directory
>cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps: No such file
>or directory
Likely you don't have permission to create these files. The files
in /usr/share are often owned by root and the rest of the world only
has read and not write permissions. On a solaris 10 machine I have
access to:
solaris10 > ls -l /usr/share/icons/blueprint/
total 10
drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Oct 18 2007 36x36/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root other 512 Oct 18 2007 48x48/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 1295 Dec 16 2004 index.theme
drwxr-xr-x 8 root other 512 Oct 18 2007 stock/
rudin:/home/m1/bellenot
solaris10 > uname -a
SunOS rudin 5.10 Generic_137112-03 i86pc i386 i86pc
Alternately this could fails even as root if one did the copy before the
directory 32x32 was created.
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Dave
> I'm trying to install Mathematica 7.0.1 (it's a trial version) on a
> Sun Blade 2000 running Solaris 10 with one 1200MHz processor, but the
> installation is failing.
Mathematica is supported on Solaris 10
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/platforms/
so it should work.
> I've reported this to Wolfram Reserach but so far have not received a
> response. I have also sent the message to a Mathematica specific
> newgroup, but the post has not appeared. I note some Mathematica
> questions appear on this newsgroup, so I thought I would ask.
comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica is moderated. Your post will have to wait
to be approved by the Moderatator Steve Christensen - who incedently has
a good knowledge of Solaris, as he runs http://www.sunfreeware.com/
If approved it should appear in 12-24 hours. Given the nature of the
problem, he may feel it's inappropiate and suggest you wait for a
response from Wolfram Reserach.
One of the problems with that newsgroup is that it is slow to get
responses - even Wolfram Reserach employees posts do not appear immediately.
> Below are the details of the computer and the error messages.
>
> Would any body have any suggestions on how this might be resolved?
Were you logged in as root when trying to install Mathematica? If not,
then the directories would not be created, as you would not have
permission - though I would have expected a 'permission denied' error or
similar.
It the machine configured as a workstation, with a full installation of
Solaris? If only a subset of the full installation is done (and that is
an option during the install process for Solaris), then it would fail.
I've copied this to comp.unix.solaris, as there might be someone there
who has an idea. That is one of the most productive newsgroups I've ever
used.
Oscar del Rio
> Paul MacBride wrote:
> Were you logged in as root when trying to install Mathematica? If not,
> then the directories would not be created, as you would not have
> permission - though I would have expected a 'permission denied' error or
> similar.
>> cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps: No such file
>> or directory
>> cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/gnome/64x64/apps: No such file or
>> directory
>> cp: cannot create /usr/share/icons/handhelds/128x128/apps: No such
>> file or directory
...
I noticed that my Solaris installation has the "icons/blueprint",
"icons/gnome", "icons/handheld" directories but it does not have the
"32x32", "64x64", "128x128" subdirectories (icon sizes?).
It could be a bug in the installation program, failing to check for the
existence of the subdirectories.
the install script might be trying, for example
cp {filename} /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps
which would fail if 32x32 does not exist. The correct way should have been
mkdir -p /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps
cp {filename} /usr/share/icons/blueprint/32x32/apps
You can either edit the installation script (assuming it's a script) or
manually create the directories yourself (as user "root" as Dave said)
and then retry the installation. Repeat until you've created all the
missing directories.
Dave
> Paul MacBride wrote:
>> I'm trying to install Mathematica 7.0.1 (it's a trial version) ...
>>
>> I've reported this to Wolfram Reserach but so far have not received a
>> response.
>
> When did you report it? Though since you have a trial version, they may
> not help you promptly or at all.
Richard, I sometimes wonder where you get some of your ideas from.
If he has a trial of Mathematica, he is a potential customer of Wolfram
Research. In that case, Wolfram Research would have to be *exceedingly*
dumb to not help him with an installation issue on a trial. They are not
that, so of course they will help him.
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Richard Fateman
>...
> If he has a trial of Mathematica, he is a potential customer of Wolfram
> Research. In that case, Wolfram Research would have to be *exceedingly*
> dumb to not help him with an installation issue on a trial. They are not
> that, so of course they will help him.
Well, time will tell, won't it.
WRI probably knows a lot more about him than you and I do. Certainly
more than I do.
He has filled out a form to get a trial version in which he (might have
checked) the following boxes:
status: student
company: [hm, high school?, unemployed?]
job title: night watchman?
primary field: other? maybe something that mathematica does not
support? say, dental hygiene??
what do you wish to accomplish with this trial..
{free form}
Remove plaque from his teeth?
Given the answers, it might be prudent for a salesperson to spend time
following other leads instead of directing some techie to help this guy.
He, most likely, is trying to install software without properly reading
the installation guide, as even the most casual observer on
sci.math.symbolic might note.
So, as I said, WRI might be doing the right thing. And maybe the
solution was posted -- without WRI raising a finger. More power to
dental hygiene!
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