Installing Mathematica on Linux - iteloo/formality-tools GitHub Wiki

From the Wolfram User Portal, you should be able to download the Mathematica installer script. For Mathematica 9.0.1, it was called Mathematica_9.0.1_LINUX.sh.

Run this as root (forgot if necessary),

sudo sh Mathematica_9.0.1_LINUX.sh

and follow the instructions in the prompt.

Running mathematica

The Mathematica installer should have already created symlinks in your /usr/local/bin directory, so to run the Mathematica shell, simply run

math