this script helps you to do a binary package of mathematica.
It creates:
- launcher for the desktop
- extract icon from the jar
- put the whole mathematica under /path/mathematica so that you can have more than one version at a time
mathematica 9.0.1 tested for debian jessie and ubuntu 14.04
tested on
- version 9.0.1
- ubuntu trusty 14.04
- debian / jessie