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mathematica and mathematica-light have been updated to 14.1. Mathematica 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:

• The default $UserBaseDirectory is now ~/.Wolfram (you may need to mv ~/.Mathematica ~/.Wolfram)
• MATHINIT is now WOLFRAMNB_INIT (for additional arguments to Wolfram)
• MATHEMATICA_BASE is now WOLFRAM_BASE (for custom $BaseDirectory)
• MATHEMATICA_USERBASE is now WOLFRAM_USERBASE (for custom $UserBaseDirectory)

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.

As an optional dependency, glxinfo should be added for optimized graphics capabilities (I updated my gist in the comment below to reflect that).

Yeah, unfortunately, the comments on this site are stripped of leading whitespaces :/ Here's a gist which has all the whitespaces preserved: https://gist.github.com/JP-Ellis/cdda6f7be5938c9e3af446f46032e4f8

Thanks! I added the symbolic links. That's a lot of aesthetic changes, and ironically the indentation whitespace was lost...

Wolfram is pushing their new "Wolfram Language" and as a result, they now have `wolfram` and `WolframKernel` (as binaries which should be installed as well. These are (afaik) equivalent to `math` and `MathKernel`. Here's an updated PKGBUILD (which has a few minor aesthetic changes as well): ``` # Maintainer: kjslag <kjslag at gmail dot com> # Contributor: Michael Pusterhofer <pusterhofer at student dot tugraz dot at> # Contributor: Raphael Scholer <rscholer@gmx.de> # Contributor: Anish Tondwalkar <anish@tjhsst.edu> # Contributor: Ghost91 <m_graeb11@cs.uni-kl.de> # Contributor: teratomata <teratomat@gmail.com> # Contributor: Joshua Ellis <josh@jpellis.me> pkgname=mathematica pkgver=10.4.1 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="A computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/" license=('proprietary') depends=('ttf-bitstream-vera' 'libxcursor' 'alsa-lib' 'libxml2') source=("local://Mathematica_${pkgver}_LINUX.sh") md5sums=('ea1f13a88279e6fc2ed1edc80e7a1612') install='mathematica.install' options=('!strip') PKGEXT=".pkg.tar" # To build this package you need to place the mathematica-installer into your startdir # If you don't own the installer you can download a trial version at http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/trial build() { if [[ `echo "${srcdir}" | wc -w` -ne 1 ]] then echo echo "ERROR: The Mathematica installer doesn't support directory names with spaces. Try building from a directory without spaces." echo "current build directory: ${srcdir}" false fi chmod +x ${srcdir}/Mathematica_${pkgver}_LINUX.sh } package() { # https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/InstallingMathematica.html#650929293 ${srcdir}/Mathematica_${pkgver}_LINUX.sh -- \ -execdir=${pkgdir}/usr/bin \ -targetdir=${pkgdir}/opt/Mathematica \ -auto printf "Fixing symbolic symlinks..." cd ${pkgdir}/usr/bin rm * ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/math ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/mathematica ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/Mathematica ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/MathKernel ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/mcc ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/wolfram ln -s /opt/Mathematica/Executables/WolframKernel printf " Done\n" printf "Linking MathematicaScript..." if [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then ln -s /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-x86-64/MathematicaScript ln -s /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-x86-64/WolframScript else ln -s /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/MathematicaScript ln -s /opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux/WolframScript fi printf " Done\n" printf "Copying menu and mimetype information..." mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/desktop-directories mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mime/packages cd ${pkgdir}/opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/Installation desktopFile='wolfram-mathematica.desktop' sed -Ei 's|^(\s*TryExec=).*|\1/usr/bin/Mathematica|g' $desktopFile sed -Ei 's|^(\s*Exec=).*|\1/usr/bin/Mathematica %F|g' $desktopFile cp $desktopFile ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/ echo -e '\t\tCategories=Science;Math;NumericalAnalysis;DataVisualization;' >> ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/$desktopFile cp wolfram-all.directory ${pkgdir}/usr/share/desktop-directories/ cp *.xml ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mime/packages/ printf " Done\n" printf "Copying icons..." mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/{32x32,64x64,128x128}/{apps,mimetypes} cd ${pkgdir}/opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/SystemResources/X for i in "32" "64" "128"; do cp App.Mathematica.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/wolfram-mathematica.png cp App.Player.${i}.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/wolfram-mathematicaplayer.png cp vnd.wolfram.cdf.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/application-vnd.wolfram.cdf.png cp vnd.wolfram.nb.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/application-mathematica.png cp vnd.wolfram.player.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/application-mathematicaplayer.png cp vnd.wolfram.cdf.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/application-vnd.wolfram.cdf.png cp vnd.wolfram.nb.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-mathematica.png cp vnd.wolfram.player.${i}.png\ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-mathematicaplayer.png cp vnd.wolfram.cdf.${i}.png \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-vnd.wolfram.cdf.png done printf " Done\n" printf "Copying man pages..." mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1 cd ${pkgdir}/opt/Mathematica/SystemFiles/SystemDocumentation/Unix cp *.1 ${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1 printf " Done\n" printf "Fixing file permissions..." chmod go-w -R ${pkgdir}/* printf " Done\n" } # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: # Local Variables: # major-mode: sh # End: ```

@mirh done

It wouldn't be bad if you could edit this with local:// "protocol" instead of the unsupported file://

Thanks someonerandom and kjslag, downgrading worked very well. No problems installing the package.

If you can't install due to the gzip-1.7 error, you could downgrade gzip by downloading and installing gzip-1.6 from https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/g/gzip/

@someonerandom I installed yesterday Arch Linux with KDE Desktop and I can't install Mathematica. I have the problem you describe. I don't know how to apply the patch you refer. How I will install Mathematica (or the patch)? Thanks in advance.

If someone recently wants to build this package, keep away from gzip-1.7-1: gzip: write error: Bad file descriptor expr: syntax error Critical Failure in CheckSpace_() Unix/Installer/MathInstaller: line 3484: [: =: unary operator expected Unix/Installer/MathInstaller: line 3488: [: =: unary operator expected Unix/Installer/MathInstaller: line 3484: [: =: unary operator expected Unix/Installer/MathInstaller: line 3488: [: =: unary operator expected This is only fixed at git at the moment: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=3557cd57906915eb9c990b5f386e25c395592643