I was wrong, and spent about 3 hours last night proving it. Buster has Mathematica V12.3, Bullseye 12.3. Doubt crept into my mind about what versions of Mathematica appeared where, so I went through the slow process of building a Bullseye card on a Pi Zero 2 to check. After burning the image onto a card, booting the Pi and setting location, I skipped the updates and opened Mathematica, it was 12.2. Then I let it update (1.4 GB) and rebooted to find Mathematica 12.3, and for those who care I think it was arm-hf. As a reminder, I only got into the Raspberry Pi for Mathematica and try to ignore all the details that used to be such a delight on other systems. This usually works for me, as I've built Mathematica clusters with the Pi, but I also seriously stumble a lot with the complexities of an application like Mathematica.

Are you sure Mathematica 13 is out for Raspberry? All the download links I can find lead to 12.3.1, not to 13.x.y

Any hints welcome!

Hi thanks for answering...

From what I can tell, the license for Mathematica is tied to the Raspberry Pi hardware (see section: Permitted Uses and Installations), not to a particular type of operating system. Of course, what‘s officially supported is a different matter.

Both Raspberry Pi OS and Kali are based on Debian, although Kali has a rolling release policy, so it‘s always considerably more up to date (which is the main reason why I like it, aside from a slicker looking UI, and some nifty network/sysadmin security testing tools).

If you have a 64-bit or 32-bit version of Mathematica is fairly easy to establish, look at the output of this:

$ file /opt/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.1/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/*/*               
/opt/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.1/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-ARM/ELProver:      ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=e380f960723d748626a08893fa06331715488d51, stripped
/opt/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.1/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-ARM/WolframKernel: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=c0beadca4282b84bf648e231fd2d1e99c628170d, stripped

My results clearly show 32-bit executables, so even without having access to the install logs or whatever, it‘s pretty easy to see what‘s installed. In case you should have a newer version of Mathematica, like e.g. some sort of 12.2 beta or something, the path would differ in easily discoverable ways.

Being a 32-bit executable aside, Mathematica works just fine after jumping through the hoops described here Installing Mathematica under 64-bit Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi Haven’t been able to test how much memory it can access, though...

Sorry to bug you again: are you sure you’re actually talking about an arm64 version of Mathematica, and not about an armhf version that’s capable of running on a 64-kernel 64/32-bit Userland Linux?

The reason I ask, when I go to

http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/w/wolfram-engine/

all I can find are armhf packages. Same if I go to

http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/w/wolframscript/

There’s nowhere an arm64 package of these to be seen. Am I missing something?

V12 does run on Stretch and does not have any particular hardware requirements (of course, it may feel nicer to use on a faster device)

For now, you can download and install the two packages manually

wolframscript_1.3.0+2019062801_armhf.deb

wolfram-engine_12.0.1+2019062401_armhf.deb

or use the installation script from https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

I will check into making this available through the apt repository for Stretch. (EDIT: Now available)

Did you run the install script mentioned?

The install script downloads the package from a separate source (not the official Raspbian repos). Is it the case that the Raspbian repos simply do not yet carry M12.0?

That aside, I would still like to know the answer to the questions above regarding compatibility (preferably without having to try to install M12.0, then revert again to M11.3).

The reason why I want to stay with 11.3 until 12.0 are in the Raspbian repositories: I publish a package with binary components that also includes RPi support. Binaries built with 12.0 will not work with 11.3, but those built with 11.3 work fine with 12.0. I am reluctant to require 12.0 until it becomes simple enough for everyone to install it with a simple apt install.

I have a Raspberry Pi 1 B with Stretch and I do not see the update.

Does M12 require Buster?

Does it require more recent Raspberry Pi hardware?

Is there a page listing system requirement?

(I assume it just needs Buster but could you please confirm before I go ahead and upgrade?)

Just got a Raspberry Pi and I'm looking forward to trying Mathematica on it :)

It's a bit of an aside, but has anyone run the Mathematica internal benchmark on a 4GB Pi4 yet? I need to figure out if the is enough change to upgrade from a 3B+ when they ship here in about 10 days.

Dear Ilian, Any news here, maybe anything to test for us? Thanks! Michael

This example seems to work fine in the 12.0 builds currently under testing.

Yes, this and a couple of other dependencies will be ironed out for Buster compatibility.

Terrific, thank you!