Mathematica 6 & Ubuntu 8.04

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#1 January 11, 2009

Hi! There are some known issues that make Mathematica 6 not running on Ubuntu 8.04? I installed it - apparently without problems - but when I run it ... all my X session crashes and I come back at the login screen!!!

Any help is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks in advance.

#2 January 11, 2009

Are you running Mathematica via Wine or the Linux version?

#3 January 11, 2009

mattyB said: Are you running Mathematica via Wine or the Linux version?

No wine, it's the linux version. The problem is related to the server X because the mathematica kernel (the "math" command) works.

#4 January 11, 2009

minollo said: Hi!

There are some known issues that make Mathematica 6 not running on Ubuntu 8.04? I installed it - apparently without problems - but when I run it ... all my X session crashes and I come back at the login screen!!!

Any help is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks in advance.

Try

mathematica -defaultvisual

instead of just mathematica at the terminal.

#5 January 12, 2009

stumbleUpon said: Try

mathematica -defaultvisual

instead of just mathematica at the terminal.

I tried but unfortunately without any success! :(:(:(

#6 January 20, 2009

You could try

 env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 mathematica

#7 January 22, 2009

Nothing! I get always the crash of the server X! :(

Berto88 said: You could try

 env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 mathematica

#8 July 26, 2010

Well this is about Mathematica 7 and ubuntu 10.04.

I installed it correctly as the Math command works . But it did not work in GUI. So I tried the

env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 mathematica

But it starts with a segmentation fault and works.

Do I always have to start it this way?