Error: The installer was unable to check for a valid password file. Your Mathematica installation may be incomplete or corrupted
25 11 2007
Many people face this error when they try to install Mathematics on Linux :
Error: The installer was unable to check for a valid password file. Your
Mathematica installation may be incomplete or corrupted.
it is because some libraries are missing , just download these :
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
Centos
sudo yum install yum install compat-libstdc++*
Font Server:
http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xfree/xfs/
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/unix/general/fonterrors.html