Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:27:00 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: <carl@UDel.Edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2 and MAPLE-9 Message-ID: <58736539@srv.sem.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070210163139.CNN29212@ms1.nss.udel.edu> (carl@udel.edu's message of "Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:31:39 -0500 (EST)") References: <20070210163139.CNN29212@ms1.nss.udel.edu>
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:31:39 -0500 (EST) wrote: > Dear FreeBSD: > Not entirely sure if this is the correct list to post this, but, I've > recently installed FreeBSD-6.2 on a Pentium 3 box with 1-GB of memory. This list is for -current users. A more relevant list is freebsd-stable. And the best one is freebsd-emulation. You may consider searching the archieve and then asking there. > I've tried to install all programs that I was able to run with > FreeBSD-6.1, but the only one that gives me a difficulty so far is the > mathematics package, MAPLE. There are some difficulties with doing an > installation (one needs to definitely have JDK-1.4 installed, and not > just linux-JDK-1.4). But even then, after doing the recommended fixes > as found in the FreeBSD manual, I still get: > [carl@giediprime ~]$ cd maple9/bin [carl@giediprime ~/maple9/bin]$ > ./maple maple: could not start server > This particular problem has some roots in the still current difficulty > of running MAPLE using Fedora Core 4 (or higher). I point this out, > in that the package/port "linux-base" went from being based on Red-Hat > 8 in FreeBSD-6.1 to being based on Fedora Core 4 in FreeBSD-6.2. I > was wondering if anyone else has run across problems with MAPLE, and > what they have done to get around the problem. I have translated over > from FreeBSD-6.1 the "linux-base" based on Red-Hat 8, and have gotten > MAPLE-9 to work in text mode, but cannot get the GUI to work. To get > that to work, it world seem that I have a great many packages/ports to > bring over from FreeBSD-6.1, and was hoping there might be an easier > method. Anyone have any alternative thoughts? Thanks for your help! WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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