10.4 Installing Maple"

Contributed by Aaron Kaplan. Thanks to Robert Getschmann.

Maple" is a commercial mathematics program similar to Mathematica®. You must purchase this software from http://www.maplesoft.com/ and then register there for a license file. To install this software on FreeBSD, please follow these simple steps.

  1. Execute the INSTALL shell script from the product distribution. Choose the ¡§RedHat¡¨ option when prompted by the installation program. A typical installation directory might be /usr/local/maple.

  2. If you have not done so, order a license for Maple from Maple Waterloo Software (http://register.maplesoft.com/) and copy it to /usr/local/maple/license/license.dat.

  3. Install the FLEXlm license manager by running the INSTALL_LIC install shell script that comes with Maple. Specify the primary hostname for your machine for the license server.

  4. Patch the /usr/local/maple/bin/maple.system.type file with the following:

       ----- snip ------------------
    *** maple.system.type.orig      Sun Jul  8 16:35:33 2001
    --- maple.system.type   Sun Jul  8 16:35:51 2001
    ***************
    *** 72,77 ****
    --- 72,78 ----
              # the IBM RS/6000 AIX case
              MAPLE_BIN="bin.IBM_RISC_UNIX"
              ;;
    +     "FreeBSD"|\
          "Linux")
              # the Linux/x86 case
            # We have two Linux implementations, one for Red Hat and
       ----- snip end of patch -----
    

    Please note that after the "FreeBSD"|\ no other whitespace should be present.

    This patch instructs Maple to recognize ¡§FreeBSD¡¨ as a type of Linux system. The bin/maple shell script calls the bin/maple.system.type shell script which in turn calls uname -a to find out the operating system name. Depending on the OS name it will find out which binaries to use.

  5. Start the license server.

    The following script, installed as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/lmgrd.sh is a convenient way to start up lmgrd:

       ----- snip ------------
    
    #! /bin/sh
    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
    PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/maple/bin:/usr/local/maple/FLEXlm/UNIX/LINUX
    export PATH
    
    LICENSE_FILE=/usr/local/maple/license/license.dat
    LOG=/var/log/lmgrd.log
    
    case "$1" in
    start)
            lmgrd -c ${LICENSE_FILE} 2>> ${LOG} 1>&2
            echo -n " lmgrd"
            ;;
    stop)
            lmgrd -c ${LICENSE_FILE} -x lmdown 2>> ${LOG} 1>&2
            ;;
    *)
            echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" 1>&2
            exit 64
            ;;
    esac
    
    exit 0
       ----- snip ------------
    
  6. Test-start Maple:

    % cd /usr/local/maple/bin
    % ./xmaple
    

    You should be up and running. Make sure to write Maplesoft to let them know you would like a native FreeBSD version!

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