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Installing package?

Posted 4 years ago

I'm utterly new to Mathematica (which came already installed on my new Raspberry Pi 400), but want to install a package (.m file) I've downloaded from elsewhere. I find multiple places online which seem to say to use file -> install ...

In the Mathematica menu under 'palettes' I see an 'install palette' and that seems to work just fine -- I can install a .nb file. But under 'file' I see no 'install' -- nor do I see anything else that seems to be how to install a .m file.

Any insights would be appreciated...

POSTED BY: Doug Jarratt
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Posted 4 years ago

I see, you're on Raspberry Pi?

This is what I would do, forget about the UI in this case.

  • Evaluate $UserBaseDirectory in your notebook.
  • Using you favorite command-line or file management tool(s), place the desired .m file in the Kernel directory that should exist under $UserBaseDirectory.

Then Get (and FindFile) should see your .m file.

This is essentially what I expect that File > Install... does.

POSTED BY: Joel Klein
Posted 4 years ago

Maybe I should add that "About Mahematica" shows:

Version Number: 12.1.1.0
Platform: Linux ARM (32-bit)
POSTED BY: Doug Jarratt
Posted 4 years ago

Thanks Joel -- but starting from the left and under the File menu is where I do not see an "Install..." option. Under Palettes there is an "Install Palette...", but no "Install..." under File. I would attach a screen shot, but the Raspberry Pi 400 PrtScn key does not take a screenshot while the pull down is open. However after searching around a bit under the Raspberry Pi group where I entered my question I did find an earlier and similar question, to which someone answered that one should just put the .m file into the FileNameJoin[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Applications"}].directory. I did that and it does seem to do the trick -- at least I can Needs[] the file now (though I'm not sure everything about it is working and I'm not sure if there might be additional things I need to do).

Anyway thanks much for replying...

POSTED BY: Doug Jarratt
Posted 4 years ago
POSTED BY: Joel Klein
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