Editing Installing Maple (section)

== Installing Maple ==

You can now exit from SMB by typing <code>exit</code> and pressing ENTER.

Now you will find the Maple installer in the /tmp directory.

By default the installer file will have read and write privileges but not execute privileges. You can verify this by running <code>ls -l</code> on the file itself:

Maple 2018: <code> ls -l /tmp/Maple2018.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code>

Maple 2019: <code> ls -l /tmp/Maple2019.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code>

which will show

<code> -rw-rw-r--. 1 USERNAME USERNAME FILE_SIZE DATE /tmp/Maple201V.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code> (where V is either 8 or 9, depending on which version you selected).

the <code>-rw-rw-r--.</code> indicates that there are read and write privileges for the user and the group and read privilages for all other users.

We will use the "chmod" command to change this file permission to be executable. We use "+x" to indicate to add executable permissions. 

Maple 2018: <code> chmod +x /tmp/Maple2018.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code>

Maple 2019: <code> chmod +x /tmp/Maple2019.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code>

Now to run the installer you can type in the command line

Maple 2018: <code> /tmp/Maple2018.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code>

Maple 2019: <code> /tmp/Maple2019.0LinuxX64Installer.run </code>

From here a graphical UI will appear and you can follow those instructions to install Maple.

You have to use the network install rather than the stand alone. The license server is <code>maplelm-hv.rose-hulman.edu</code> (tested in 7/2020) and use the default port (usually 27000). (Source: https://www.maplesoft.com/documentation_center/maple2017/Maple2017.pdf, https://www.reddit.com/r/rosehulman/comments/4hm1vb/maple_on_linux/).

This means that you have to be on the campus network to access the Maple license server on Linux (to use Rose-Hulman's license of Maple). You can do this by connecting to the eduroam network on campus or by using the '''GlobalProtect VPN''' when off campus (please see [[Accessing the Off-Campus VPN]] for how to do that).

(This is not the case for Windows on your Rose-Hulman laptop, you are given a license key pre-installed on your Windows install from EIT.)

Sources:

https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html

https://help.lafayette.edu/accessing-file-shares-from-linux/ (method 1)