How do I install Maple?

I am new to Ubuntu and I was wondering if anyone could show me a tutorial or actually show me how to install software, for example Maple software or things like that.

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This guide will take you through the steps of installing Maple9.5 or Maple10 in Ubuntu. We will install Maple and create symlinks to the executables.

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Installation

First, create a directory in /opt for Maple. If you are installing Maple 10, you probably want to call this /opt/maple10 instead. If you do, remember to use the appropriate path for the rest of the commands in this guide.

sudo mkdir -p /opt/maple9.5

Now, put your Maple 9.5 or Maple 10 cd into your cdrom. It should then be mounted to /media/cdrom. Maple includes a nice installer script for us that we can run:

sudo sh /media/cdrom/installMapleLinuxSU

We have to run the installer through sh since cdrom's are mounted noexec by default.

Follow the instructions in the Maple installer and choose /opt/maple9.5 as the install directory.

Symbolic Links

Now so that we can just type maple to start Maple or xmaple to start the graphical version, we need to create symbolic links somewhere in your $PATH. We will be using /usr/local/bin which is reserved for local installations:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /opt/maple9.5/bin/{x,}maple /usr/local/bin

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