Debian package for Mathematica

Description

Debian rules to generate a Debian package for Mathematica for amd64 architecture. The Mathematica installer Mathematica_*_LINUX.sh corresponding to the version in changelog has to be provided to build the package.

The generated Debian package:

• installs Mathematica in /opt/mathematica
• adds links to executables in /usr/bin
• adds icons, mimes and desktop menu entries in the corresponding directory in /usr/share
• adds license file if provided

A license file mathpass has to be provided to use Mathematica either next to the installer in order to be included in the package or need to be added in /opt/mathematica/Configuration/Licensing/ after the package is installed. To use a network license server the mathpass is simply:

!hostname-or-ip-of-license-server

Inspired by Mathematica Arch Linux PKGBUILD.

Package build

1. Define the desired version:

    export VERSION=13.2.0
   

2. Clone the git repository containing the packages rules in an empty directory:

    git clone -b $VERSION https://github.com/guillod/deb-mathematica.git mathematica-$VERSION
    cd mathematica-$VERSION
   

3. Put the Mathematica installer Mathematica_$VERSION_BNDL_LINUX.sh (if you want to include the documentation) or Mathematica_$VERSION_LINUX.sh (if you want online documentation only) in the current directory (mathematica-$VERSION).

4. Optionally, put a mathpass file (network license server) in the same directory in order to include it in the package.

5. Generate the package for example with:

    debuild --no-lintian -i -b -uc -us
   

   or sbuild (note you can speed up the creation of the source archive using --dpkg-source-opts="-Zgzip -z1").

Installation

Once generated, the package mathematica_$VERSION_amd64.deb can be installed for example with:

sudo apt install ../mathematica_$VERSION_amd64.deb

Contact

For comments, issues, bug-reports and requests, please use the issue tracker of the current repository. Otherwise the principal author can be reached at:

Julien Guillod
julien.guillod CHEZ sorbonne-universite.fr
https://guillod.org/
Department of Mathematics
Sorbonne University
France