This might not help you on your homework assignment, but maybe Maxima is a good quick solution for you: maxima.sourceforge.net.
Judah Christopher Conroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never used Mathematica before this week, and I ran into some serious > difficulties getting it to work over X11 (off WAM or GLUE). > > At first, it would complain on startup that I didn't have the necessary > fonts installed. Apparently, Mathematica uses it's own (non-standard) fonts. > I found a zip of some BDF fonts which I added to my local font path by doing > 'xset +fp /home/chris/BDF/', and that stopped the error messages. Except, > when I went to evaluate anything, it would segfault. > > So then I poked around and found this (outdated) OIT help page on the > subject: > http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/mathstat/mathematica/161/ > the xfs -config command produced an error for me, and I also found the > directions a bit unclear (i.e. which machine are they referring to? my local > machine or the glue/wam box I'm currently logged into?) > > Since I needed to get it to work fast for a HW assignment, I simply copied > all the fonts from the path given in the OIT help page to my local machine > and added that location to my font path. From that point on, everything > seemed to work. So, it seems like a decent solution to me. If anyone else > has a better way, let me know. Otherwise, perhaps we should ask OIT to > update the help page? > > P.S. When X11 forwarding an application, turn off numlock as it can > interfere with certain keystrokes (e.g. carriage return) > > -- > Christopher Conroy
