| 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: | proprietary |
| Submitter: | Feanor12 |
| Maintainer: | JP-Ellis |
| Last Packager: | JP-Ellis |
| Votes: | 80 |
| Popularity: | 0.75 |
| First Submitted: | 2011-03-03 21:27 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-01-15 22:25 (UTC) |
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Why is this flagged out-of-date?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
@bryango iyanmv's idea of starting Mathematica with -mesa fixes your issues for me. See also: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/222365/36317
I upgraded from Mathematica 12.0.0 to Mathematica 12.1.0, and now I have some kind of render issue. When I'm typing in a notebook, there is a gray bar on top of the text. It is quite annoying to be honest. I have written to their support email, hope to get any answer. In the meantime, anyone facing a similar issue?
I have also tried to start Mathematica with -mesa option, but still same problem. I suspect this has something to do with the new support for HiDPI. They kind of change all default sizes.
@JP-Ellis I think the packages that I listed, along with espeak, ncurses, qt5-, and java-, are all bundled with mathematica in that directory and shouldn't be listed as optional dependencies.
@kjslag The list of optional dependencies was initially produced using the inspect namcap. I'll admit I do know know which are strictly necessary and I would love to narrow it down; however, Mathematica has so many components that I don't even know where to start and if it would be all that useful ultimately.
I can reproduce the issue of invisible 3D plots described on the stackexchange website. I also have an issue where the text on the frame of Plot3D is not rendered well, which I think also just started with mathematica 12.1. I do not know how to fix either issue. bryango, you should consider reporting this to Wolfram.
I'm using mathematica 12.1 (installed March 19) on arch linux with KDE, a 4k screen, and intel GPU. I last updated my packages on May 1st.
JP-Ellis, where did this list of optional dependencies come from? For example, why is intel-mkl, freetype2, gmp, libssh2, openssl on the list? I think Mathematica is bundled with these libraries (and probably many of the others) in /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux-x86-64/
Below is my list of optional dependencies:
alsa-lib [installed]
atk [installed]
cairo [installed]
clucene [installed]
cuda
curl [installed]
espeak [installed]
ffmpeg [installed]
fluidsynth [installed]
fontconfig [installed]
freetype2 [installed]
gdk-pixbuf2 [installed]
glib2 [installed]
glu [installed]
gmime
gmp [installed]
gtk2 [installed]
harfbuzz [installed]
icu [installed]
intel-mkl [installed]
intel-tbb [installed]
java-environment [installed]
java-runtime [installed]
lame [installed]
lcms2 [installed]
leptonica
libbson
libffi [installed]
libjpeg-turbo [installed]
libmad [installed]
libmongoc
libnet [installed]
libogg [installed]
libpng12 [installed]
libselinux
libsm [installed]
libssh2 [installed]
libutil-linux [installed]
libwebp [installed]
libx11 [installed]
libxml2 [installed]
libxslt [installed]
libxtst [installed]
libxxf86vm [installed]
mesa-demos: for improved graphics output [installed]
ncurses [installed]
nvidia-utils [installed]
opencv
openssl-1.0 [installed]
pango [installed]
pixman [installed]
portaudio [installed]
postgresql-libs [installed]
qt5-multimedia [installed]
qt5-svg [installed]
qt5-webengine [installed]
qt5-xmlpatterns [installed]
r [installed]
tesseract
zlib [installed]
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JP-Ellis commented on 2024-01-15 22:27 (UTC)
The update to v14.0.0 has been uploaded. A list of new features can be found in Wolfram's blog.
If there are any issues with this PKGBUILD, please let me know in a commment below.
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.