Testing the Installation

The following simple commands allow you to test the installation of the Wolfram System. Running these commands does not guarantee that the installation was successful, but a failed command can indicate that a serious problem occurred during installation.

You should run these tests from a regular user account and not from an account with administrative privileges.

To run the Wolfram System using a network license, both the client machine and the license server must be on the network and MathLM must be running.

If you run into problems when doing these tests, see the troubleshooting tips in "Troubleshooting the Wolfram System". If you do not find the answer there, check the Technical Support website at support.wolfram.com/mathematica.

To Test the Front End:

On Unix and Linux, you can test the X front end remotely, provided the ssh server on the remote machine allows X forwarding. You must be running X on the local machine to do this. In a shell, type ssh -X hostname /usr/local/bin/mathematica. (The exact pathname could be different depending on how the Wolfram System was installed.) This command will launch the Wolfram System on the remote machine hostname. When the splash screen appears on your screen, follow step 2 and step 3 in the previous instructions.