Has any one managed to get Wolfram CDF plugin to work on Linux/Firefox?
No. Because so far the browser plugin is only for Windows and OSX.
In the download link it mentions that the linux plugin is still under development (stealing your screenshot)
Also, if you look at the bottom of http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/ you'll currently see the text
Already have CDF Player installed on Windows or Mac? Test the browser plugin»
The program you installed is just the normal CDF player - a stand-alone program.
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Nasser
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Nasser almost 2 years
On Ubuntu
$uname -a Linux me-VirtualBox 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I downloaded the CDF player plugin from WRI web page and installed it OK:
$chmod +x CDFPlayer_8.0.1_LINUX.sh $sudo ./CDFPlayer_8.0.1_LINUX.sh Mathematica Player 8.0.1 for LINUX Installer Archive Verifying archive integrity. Extracting installer. ........................................................................................................... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfram CDF Player Installer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1988-2011 Wolfram Research, Inc. All rights reserved. WARNING: Mathematica and Wolfram CDF Player are protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution may result in severe civil and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under law. Enter the installation directory, or press ENTER to select /usr/local/Wolfram/MathematicaPlayer/8.0: > Now installing... [*****************************************************************************] Type the directory path in which the Wolfram CDF Player script(s) will be created, or press ENTER to select /usr/local/bin: > Installation complete.
Now I start firefox 4.0.1 on this linux, and go to run a Mathematica demonstration, but it is not detecting any plugin. It keeps asking me to download the CDF plugin again and again.
When I open the firefox plugin tab, I do not see the CDF plugin there. And I do not see any way to manually install it.
Just wondering if anyone out there has linux and is able to run the demonstrations using the CDF plugin without them having Mathematica itself installed.
EDIT1: Here is screen shot for downloading the plugin for CDF for linux. Or may be I am mixing this with the CDF player? I thought they are the same now? Need to check on this more.
EDIT 2: OK, it is a player, not a plugin. I have to download the CDF and then it will run OK. Like this:
/usr/local/bin/WolframCDFPlayer RigidBodyPendulumOnAFlywheel.cdf
sorry for the confusion.
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Admin about 13 years@Simon, I do not understand. But it does say Linux in the download page? Please see EDIT1 I added for screen shot.
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Simon about 13 yearsHere's some blog posts that mention the fact that the browser plugin is only for Windows and OSX: walkingrandomly.com/?p=3323, mhreviews.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/…
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Admin about 13 yearsOK, I see now ! it is not a plugin, but a player. Did not read the fine print :) Thanks.
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Simon about 13 years@Nasser: As I said. You downloaded the CDF player. This is basically a crippled version of Mathematica. For Windows and OSX this includes browser plugins - but for linux, it does not. To run the cdf player enter
wolframcdfplayer
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Simon about 13 years(Damn comment overlaps!) I know, it's annoying. I'm also running Ubuntu and want my browser plugin!
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Admin about 13 yearsI noticed there is a difference in the same demo between windows and Linux! May be I should make a new question on that. This is interesting.