Can I run 32/64 bit mathematica on Ubuntu touch?

Question

I'm going to install Ubuntu on my google nexus 9 tablet based on 64-bit Nvidia tegra dual denver processor.

After that can I run Wolfram Mathematica 32/64 bit,or any other 3rd party desktop applications for linux ,on it?

Answer 1

That depends on the available instruction set(s) of the processor architecture of the tablet computer. According to Mathematica's official system requirements, Intel x86 or AMD64 instruction set support is required. That means, you can't run Mathematica on an ARM processor driven (tablet) computer.

Answer 2

I can confirm that the Mathematica kernel taken from RPI runs on an Aquaris 4.5 phone running Ubuntu Touch.

Short instruction how I proceeded:

1. On the phone, run the sshd demon, i.e in terminal I run /usr/sbin/sshd -D &" (this allows password authentication, as was discussed in this forum)

2. Copy Mathematica from RPI to phone. I used tar cvf - ./Wolfram | ssh -l phablet phoneIP 'tar xvf -' when RPI and the phone were both connected to the same local network.

3. Login to the phone using ssh and edit the scripts in the Executables folder, replacing #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/sh -e (this may be optional)

4. Run the Executables/math script (Ensure it is executable! Do a chmod +x ./math, if not)

5. Pass the authentication procedure as for ordinary Mathematica. When finished, the math kernel starts and is working.

Note. Due to a terminal application bug (as of 2015-06-27) you cannot run the math script in the terminal. If you want to run it in phone's terminal application you can use temporal workaround: ssh localhost and then run math. Or even in one step ssh localhost 'math', where math is assumed to be on your path.