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Mathlm licence daemon not backwardly compatible

Posted 10 years ago

The v10.3 mathlm installer for linux and daemon is broken as not compatible with the OS's as documented --notably centos 5 as it specifically required GLIBC2.7. Has anyone else raised this or am I stuck with wolfram persistantly updgrading the mathematice with minor versions updates which require a new network licence, and daemon and installer which now are not even compatible or buggy.

Matlab and maple do not issue minor revisions every 3 months which require a new licence, they just issue the updates. Why do Wolfram expect system admin's to spend a lot of time and effort on their poduct, fixing bugs, installing new licences.

It appears to be paranoia about illegal licences, OK, so Wolfram, how about testing before issueing and how about some support for premier licence holders -- a reply would be nice -- still waitng after a week -- no reply at all !!!!

POSTED BY: Steve Downing
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Posted 10 years ago

1) perhaps there was an old link to a previous webpage left on the help pages, as I assure you I can tell the difference between a 5.6 and 6.7 especially when I specifically checked those versions. However now too busy to check caches as it appears I need to update the OS on scores of servers.

2) Both mathLM and Mathematica v10.2 dated late 2015 do run on centos 5, and I am running both, which is why I have been caught out with the minor upgrade to 10.3. which doesn't.

3) In paces such as Universities with thousands of users, all of whom like to run software on their laptops, with OS' s dating back to win2000 up to win10, macos leopard to El capitan, solaris, Irix, scores of different linux flavous, compatibility changes are a real nightmare. They are far far more important than the latest new functionality that wolfram email us about on weekly basis. As the sysadmin for apps like maple, matlab etc I know they at least provide patches for these issues --as matlab have done for El capitan. So if anyone from Wolfram reads this --- make sure you draw attention to compatibility issues, especially if no longer supporting an OS with as much notice as possible. (plus a specific email to all site licence holders, with subject line "OS compatibility" ). Then at least I can point these issues out to users and keep a copy of old versions.

  1. How about providing a statically linked version of mathinfo as that appears to be the issue at least with MathLM script.
POSTED BY: Steve Downing

So they have fixed the compatibility issue by removing it from the webpage as it said centos 5 and 6 this morning

I don't see how that is possible given that CentOS 5 was removed from that page more than a year ago, with the Mathematica 10 release (June/July 2014), which can be easily seen from archive.org snapshots.

POSTED BY: Ilian Gachevski
Posted 10 years ago

So they have fixed the compatibility issue by removing it from the webpage as it said centos 5 and 6 this morning . Hardily a fix, more a cop out. How about them informing us when an OS is no longergoing to be supported with some advnace warning as other well supported applications like matlab do ?

POSTED BY: Steve Downing

Per the documentation,

Requirements

MathLM is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. For a detailed list of specific platforms, visit www.wolfram.com/mathematica/system-requirements.html

According to the above page, CentOS 5 is not a supported platform. The minimum supported version is CentOS 6.

POSTED BY: Ilian Gachevski
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