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**askrieger** · Sep 18, 2006, 05:50 PM

Re: Installing Maple 10 software from cdrom

Can you tell us exactly what problems you have had at each stage? If you have gotten any error messages. please give us their EXACT WORDING.

**spacepirates** · Sep 19, 2006, 05:32 AM

Re: Installing Maple 10 software from cdrom

Step by step of what I have/can get done with the Maple..
mount the disc,
explore the disc,
read the install.html,
and thats it.

I can't get the install script (installMapleLinuxSU) to run or do anything. Double-clicking the file brings it up in kate, opening with konsole just opens a window, cd-ing into the cdrom directory and typing the in the file name there gets me this:

Code:

spacepirates@ubuntu:/media/cdrom1$ '/media/cdrom1/installMapleLinuxSU'
bash: /media/cdrom1/installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
spacepirates@ubuntu:/media/cdrom1$ sudo '/media/cdrom1/installMapleLinuxSU'
Password:
sudo: unable to execute /media/cdrom1/installMapleLinuxSU: Permission denied

even as root nothing happens...

I don't know how to run installMapleLinuxSU. it doesn't have an extension, and no commands i know seem to work.

let me know if i forgot to include some vital piece of information.

thanks!

**askrieger** · Sep 19, 2006, 02:16 PM

Re: Installing Maple 10 software from cdrom

Okay, now I think I understand your problem your problem. Either, your /media/cdrom1 directory or the installation script file itself has a permission problem. As in

Ensure you have appropriate read and write privileges

But, you don't (can't, if it's not a cdrw) have WRITE privileges to a CDROM, so you have to move the installer (and possibly everything else in that directory) to a temporary directory. Or, perhaps, you were supposed to set up the installation directory.

The level of detail required in the remainder of my instructions to you is very much a function of your sophistication as a Linux user. The critical questions are: (a) Can you verify that the installer is a shell script and not Perl or Python? Hint: look at the first line, it should say "#! /bin/bash", or something similar. (b)Can you read the language of the shell script well enough to figure out what it is trying to do and what it assumes, you have done to prepare the way? Hint: look for variable declarations like INSTALL_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/bin/. (c) Can you do what the script assumes you would have done, if the guy who wrote the html file had done his job properly? Query: do you know how to make a directory and change its ownership and/or its permissions?

**spacepirates** · Sep 19, 2006, 06:17 PM

Re: Installing Maple 10 software from cdrom

ok, i tried copying the entire dir and running the script from there (after changed permissions). it errored with

Code:

spacepirates@ubuntu:~$ '/home/spacepirates/Desktop/Maple/installMapleLinuxSU'
/home/spacepirates/Desktop/Maple/installMapleLinuxSU: line 31: cd: X86_64/Disk1/InstData/VM: No such file or directory
sh: ./LinuxX86_64Installer.bin: No such file or directory

as for the rest..
(a) #!/bin/sh is the first line of the script
(b) as for what it is doing... i can only guess using my meager knowledge of C++. I think it is trying to check to see what processor i have, and what to install. then it installs everything. It hangs on the processor check because it references the dir that doesn't exit in the error ( INSTALLER_DIR="X86_64/Disk1/InstData/VM").
(c) i'm fairly confident in my abilities to create directories and change permissions (mkdir and chmod, in console, i think). as for trying the script on my own... i hesitate changing anything manually that comes close to the processor.

the install script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (c) 1996-2004 by Waterloo Maple Inc.
# All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication prohibited.
# Permission is granted to modify this file to be appropriate
# for use at the installation for which Maple was purchased.

# Determine which Linux installer to use
PROCESSOR=`uname -m`
case $PROCESSOR in
ia64)
  CMD="sh ./LinuxItaniumInstaller.bin"
  INSTALLER_DIR="ITANIUM/Disk1/InstData/VM"
  ;;
x86_64)
  CMD="sh ./LinuxX86_64Installer.bin"
  INSTALLER_DIR="X86_64/Disk1/InstData/VM"
  ;;
*)
  CMD="sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin" 
  INSTALLER_DIR=Linux/Disk1/InstData/VM
  ;;
esac

PREVIOUS_PWD=`pwd`
SCRIPT_PATH=`dirname $0`
if [ -z $SCRIPT_PATH ] ; then
  SCRIPT_PATH=`pwd`
fi
cd $SCRIPT_PATH
cd $INSTALLER_DIR

# pass on arguments
for I in "$@"
do
  CMD="${CMD} \"${I}\""
done
# execute installer
CHECK_DISPLAY="yes"
if ( echo $CMD | grep -i console >/dev/null ) || ( echo $CMD | grep -i silent > /dev/null ) ; then
  CHECK_DISPLAY="no"
fi

if [ "${CHECK_DISPLAY}" = "yes" ]; then
  if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] ; then
   echo "Warning! DISPLAY variable not set. Attempting to run installer in CONSOLE mode."
   CMD="${CMD} -i console"
  fi
fi

eval $CMD

if [ -f $HOME/.com.zerog.registry.xml ]; then
	chmod 644 $HOME/.com.zerog.registry.xml 1>/dev/null 2>&1
fi

if [ -f /var/.com.zerog.registry.xml ]; then
	chmod 644 /var/.com.zerog.registry.xml 1>/dev/null 2>&1
fi

exit 0

let me know whta you think i should do. thanks again!

**askrieger** · Sep 20, 2006, 12:12 AM

Re: Installing Maple 10 software from cdrom

As I suspected, the installer script is a bash script. It is written in the BASH command language (not in C++, which is VERY different, even though both have a switch statement. You are correct as to what the script is trying to do at that point and almost correct as to why it fails. I'm sorry to say that I have led you astray.

If you have copied the script correctly, it tries to change the working directory to the location of the script called $SCRIPT_PATH and then, if it doesn't fail there, it tries to change the working directory to the location of the installation software which is called $INSTALLER_DIR, in this case, $SCRIPT_PATH/X86_64/Disk1/InstData/VM. So SCRIPT_PATH must be the parent directory of INSTALLER_DIR. The easiest way to make this happen is to run the script from the directory on the CDROM which is the parent of /X86_64/. The dot at the front of the sh command, called CMD, stands for "start here".

So, unless you have copied the entire CDROM to your desktop, you must "cd" to the directory /media/cdrom1/INSTALLMapleLinuxSU, or wherever. You must then run the command as root, i.e. by prefacing the command with "sudo". In other words, you may have been right the first time. The problem is that the people who wrote the installer may be wrong in that they have assumed that all Linux distros use root logins. If that is the case, you will have to set up your system to use a root login, and you will have to run Maple as root. This is an insecure procedure.

Before changing your system to use root logins, read this Ubuntu Community Help page about RootSudo.

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