This evening I installed SMath Studio Desktop on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
This was a fully updated copy (as of today) of 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).
Here are the steps:
1) Install winforms library needed by mono.
First verify mono is installed. It is by default, but it is always nice
to check.
Code:
$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 2.4.4 (Debian 2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC)
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: x86
Disabled: none
$
Now install the winforms library.
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms2.0-cil
2) Make a directory to contain SMath Studio in your
home directory, download, unarchive, and run
SMath Studio. This is not a permanent installation,
but will get you started.
Code:
$ cd
$ mkdir smath_studio
$ cd smath_studio
Make sure your browser is configured to allow you to specify the location of
file downloads. In Google Chrome, this is found under Options->Under the hood->Download.
Check the box marked "ask where to save each file before downloading".
Now, using your browser, go to
http://en.smath.info/for...t.aspx?g=posts&t=561and download the file SMathStudioDesktop.0_89.Mono.tar.gz to ~/smath_studio.
Code:
$ ls
$ SMathStudioDesktop.0_89.Mono.tar.gz
$ md5sum *gz
$ 660c064598b5ef74878cf15452095ea9 SMathStudioDesktop.0_89.Mono.tar.gz
The md5sum command above calculates a hash which allows you to verify that
your copy of SMath studio is the same as mine. The numbers should match.
Now ungzip and untar the .tar.gz archive, then cd into the application
directory and make the SMath Studio shell script executable.
Note: In the commands listed below, *o indicates the lower-case letter, not the digit zero.
Code:
$ tar -xvzf *gz
$ ls
SMathStudioDesktop.0_89.Mono SMathStudioDesktop.0_89.Mono.tar.gz
$ cd *o
$ chmod u+x *o
$ ls -l *o
-rwxr--r-- 1 gregb gregb 54 2010-07-22 18:59 smathstudio_desktop_mono
At this point the SMath Studio startup shell script is ready for use.
Here we go!
At this point the SMath Studio application window should open with
a blank "Page 1" to work on.