On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 4:16 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@???> wrote:
>

> >> when I reboot it can't find or read its
> >>      ~/.Mathematica/Licensing/mathpass
> >> file [that] contains the activation key.

>
> The Mathematica license file generally needs to be copied into
>

>         .../mathematica/13.1.0/Configuration/Licensing/mathpass

>
> manually.
>

Thanks Professor Beebe:

At this stage I am going to write off Mathemtaica and use Maxima.
It's gonna be a lot of work to reproduce all the Mthematica notebooks.
but I am going to do it.

Mathematica does not use a *.deb package. It instals with a huge 4.6
GB script. I suspect that one of the principal problems is that
mathematica,
for Linux, depends on systemd. Look:

$ strings  Mathematica_13.0.1_BNDL_LINUX.sh | grep systemd
        systemd="false"
            ps -p 1 | grep systemd  >& /dev/null
                systemd="true"

systemScript="/etc/systemd/system/wolframlightweightgrid.service"
        elif [ "${systemd}" = "true" ]; then
            # Does the system use systemd or sysvinit/upstart?
                # We have systemd
                    # assume classic init if systemd is not present

Mr. Torvalds has effectively torpedoed desktop Linux by adopting
systemd. Systemd distributions couldn't do scanning easily.They
messed with Xsane.
Everytime I went to print on both Mint linux and Kubuntu (both
systemd) I had to reconfigure CUPS. That does not happen on Devuan.
systemd disabled
functions in my Softmaker Office Suite. Softmaker Office works great
on Devuan. Thanks to systemd Linux is headed for obscurity.

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> P.S. Mathematica 14.1.0 was announced by the vendor a few days ago.
>
Matematica 14 incorporates AI. AI does not interest me.