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    Mathematica 5.2 trouble

    Hi everyone,

    I just installed Mathematica 5.2 on Ubuntu 7,10. When i start Mathematica, i see the notebook but i see nothing when i type something...any suggestions ?

    Stochastics

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    Re: Mathematica 5.2 trouble

    I have been using mathematica 4 (in kde) and 5, 5.2, 6, 6.01 (in fluxbox and ubuntu gnome) with no problems at all.

    Try this:
    - open a terminal

    - run the "math" command (i.e., type "math" on the command line and press "enter"). This command runs mathematica in the terminal, and does not lauch the graphical user interface.

    -you should get a message like this

    Mathematica 5.2 for Linux
    Copyright 1988-2007 Wolfram Research, Inc.
    In[1]:=


    -In[1]:= means the you can enter an input. Try any operation, let's say 2+2. Namely type in the terminal "2+2" and press "Enter". You should get something like this
    In[1]:= 2+2
    Out[1]= 5
    In[2]:=

    No, I am joking. I expect something like this:
    In[1]:= 2+2
    Out[1]= 4
    In[2]:=

    If this works fine, the installation was ok and you only need to install the right fonts. I do not know which fonts mathematica 5.2 uses, but you may try to run "sudo fc-cache -f -v" to update the fonts, if mathematica installed some new ones itself.

    in any case, you can use the non graphic version until you solve the problem.

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    Re: Mathematica 5.2 trouble

    I just found a workaround for this problem. To be able to see what i write on the Mathematica notebook, i need to set to normal the visual effects in System->Preferences->Appearence.

    Stochastics.

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    Re: Mathematica 5.2 trouble

    can I ask if your name choice was just something random?
    Imagination is more important than knowledge

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