Standalone installation (Portable Version)
On Windows operative systems it is possible to run the program as portable executable. Any extension (plugins, snippets, etc...) and setting will be set and loaded inside the folder that contains this executable. Existing installations of SMath Studio and other portable executables won't interact with it.
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Requirements
Download
Installation
Known issues
History
See also
References
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Requirements
In the machine where you want to run the portable version you must have:
a Microsoft Windows operative system;
.NET Framework 2.0 or later, just like for the installable version;
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Download
As first step you have to download the right package.
From the homepage
download the one named
SMath Studio Desktop for Mono
.
If you are looking for a previous version look into the
history
section.
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Installation
Once downloaded, unpack the archive where you want. Depending on your archive manager, you might have to do it twice.
Into that folder create a new empty text file (*.txt), and call it "portable.version"; you must have the "
Hide extensions for known file types
" option of your OS disabled.
That's all! Once you run the executable in that folder, you should notice the program version on the title bar and the "portable" attribute in the
Help
>
About SMath Studio
dialog.
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Known issues
to inform the developers about issues you found out use the
Issues Tracker
or the forum:
Bugs & Problems
For some time there used to be an official
SMath Studio Desktop Portable
executable associated with SMath Studio releases. That was made in the scope to have a full portable version that didn't need .NET Framework installed on the target machine. This it is now discontinued; since the creation of those packages was made using a commercial virtualization software, it is possible that some or all these packages won't works anymore.
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History
SMath
0.80
: First official
SMath Studio Desktop Portable
release;
SMath
0.96.4909
(Beta): Last official
SMath Studio Desktop Portable
release;
SMath
0.98.6060
(Beta): Version is added to Title bar when SMath Studio started as Portable Version;
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See also
Unofficial portable distribution with Maxima
;
Extensions Manager
;
Plugins
;
Snippets
;
Language files into (old) portable versions
;
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References
portable.version hint
by Andrey Ivashov;
end of portable releases
by Andrey Ivashov;