

Wolfram should provide you software installers for your desired product once they have processed your request. Mathematica Desktop (your product key will be provided in your Wolfram account's "Product Summary" page).You will need to fill out the appropriate form for your desired product and role at the University. You will need to click a link Wolfram sends you in email to complete your account creation. Go to and select the option to create an account, then fill out the form using your MSU Denver email address. You will need to create a Wolfram account, if you do not already have one. MSU Denver offers faculty and students access to three versions of Wolfram's software at no cost under MSU Denver's site license: Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro. Most packages written in pure Mathematica should work.Mathematica is a computational software program that has traditionally been used in the study of mathematics, sciences, and engineering, but also is suitable for use in other fields of study such as economics, education, social sciences, finance, statistics and even music. In short, this package won't work because it's written in a mix of Mathematica and C. But unfortunately it is not compatible with Mathematica Online because it relies on separate executables, which are not supported in the cloud due to security reasons. How to install xAct specifically? xAct follows the standard installation procedure, so the above steps work. Using xAct as an example, we have the xAct directory within Base/Applications, the package is installed. Or we can download the file directly to the cloud using URLSave. I have not found a way to upload a directory (please let me know if there's a way!), so I took the following approach instead: upload an archive and extract it using ExtractArchive. wl file, in which case doing this is simple, or it may come as a directory, which makes uploading more difficult. Navigate to Applications and place the package there.Ī package may be a single. What about the cloud? (Note: I do not have access to Mathematica Online so I am going to work with the Programming Cloud, hoping that they're similar enough.) The value of $UserBaseDirectory has less information about how to actually put files there, but we can navigate to Home > Base using the cloud's file manager: Note: not all packages follow the standard so be sure to read the package's documentation for package-specific installation instructions. (* "C:\\Users\\JoeUser\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mathematica" *)Īlso, SystemOpen will open it in the system's file manager.

With standard Mathematica, we can just evaluate $UserBaseDirectory to find this location, e.g. $UserBaseDirectory has different locations on different systems.

In general, packages need to be placed in the Applications directory within $UserBaseDirectory.
