{"id":170,"date":"2011-09-22T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:38:03","slug":"installer-mathematica-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/installer-mathematica-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Software – Mathematica 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basic instructions for building a silent installer for Mathematica 8 can be found at:
\nhttp:\/\/reference.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/tutorial\/InstallingMathematica.html<\/a><\/p>\n

We use a network wide license server to license this application. To create the license file “mathpass” on windows – install the application and then copy the license file from c:\\programdata\\mathematic\\licensing\\mathpass
\nThis file seems to also be valid in c:\\progam files (x86)\\\\Wolfram Research\\Mathematica\\8.0\\Configuration\\Licensing<\/p>\n

So I have created a script that installs mathematica silently and then copies this “mathpass” file into place …<\/p>\n

@echo off<\/p>\n

break=off<\/p>\n

set install_dir=%~dp0<\/p>\n

rem Tell the user what you are doing
\necho ———–
\necho This program installs a copy of the Williams College licensed
\necho Mathematica 8.
\necho ———–
\necho Currently installing from %install_dir% …
\necho ———–<\/p>\n

REM Detect correct Program Files folder. Note this batch file may run in 32-bit env (SysWOW64\/cmd.exe)
\nREM So %ProgramFiles% might be Program Files (x86), but we always want to check the regular Program Files.
\nset K64=no
\nif “%ProgramFiles(x86)%” == “” goto on32Bit
\n set K64=yes
\necho Detected 64-bit OS …
\necho ———–<\/p>\n

:on32Bit
\nREM Set inprogramfiles to either 32-bit or 64-bit stucture <\/p>\n

SET inProgramFiles=%ProgramFiles(x86)%
\nIF NOT EXIST “%inProgramFiles%” SET inProgramFiles=%ProgramFiles%
\necho Program files directory set to: %inProgramFiles%
\necho ———–<\/p>\n

rem run the silent installer
\necho Installing application …
\necho ———–
\n“%install_dir%payload\\Mathematica_8.0.1_WIN.EXE” \/silent \/norestart<\/p>\n

rem copy in the license file
\necho ———–
\nxcopy \/Y \/Q \/R “%install_dir%payload\\mathpass” “%inProgramFiles%\\Wolfram Research\\Mathematica\\8.0\\Configuration\\Licensing”
\nIf %errorlevel%==0 goto no_error<\/p>\n

:error
\nrem do something if there was an error
\necho ———–
\necho The Williams College licensed version of this software did not install correctly.
\necho Please be sure you ran this installer as an administrator. On Vista and Windows 7
\necho you need to right-click on the installer and select “Run as Administrator”.
\necho Please contact OIT for additonal help with this install.
\necho ———–
\npause
\nexit<\/p>\n

rem there was no error in the install AND the filter copy and there was no break
\n:no_error
\necho ———–
\necho The installation is complete.
\necho ———–<\/p>\n

:end
\npause
\nrd \/S \/Q “%install_dir%payload”
\ndel \/Q “%install_dir%instal*”
\nexit\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basic instructions for building a silent installer for Mathematica 8 can be found at: http:\/\/reference.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/tutorial\/InstallingMathematica.html We use a network wide license server to license this application. To create the license file “mathpass” on windows – install the application and then … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10085],"tags":[10110,10114,10088],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-mathematica","tag-silent-installer","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}