Not sure if this or a mathematica-focussed forum is the right place for this, but I suspect my issue is something with my ubuntu setup, so I am hoping someone here will have some ideas.
I am trying to install Mathematica from the official installer Wolfram_14.3.0_LIN_Bndl.sh, but it's being strangely annoying.
When I try running it, with any of ./Wolfram_14.3.0_LIN_Bndl.sh, sudo ./Wolfram_14.3.0_LIN_Bndl.sh, bash Wolfram_14.3.0_LIN_Bndl.sh or sudo bash Wolfram_14.3.0_LIN_Bndl.sh , I receive output of the form
Wolfram Mathematica 14.3.0 for LINUX Installer Archive
Verifying archive integrity.
Error in MD5 checksums: 7b75ed1e8117f0a81eea3b41358b9e28 is different from b78ec7c79750834b95d15731c9903fa4
However, the wrong checksum is computed each time, e.g. the 7b75ed1e8117f0a81eea3b41358b9e28 will become f393c094e26d8506c0cca1bc8addb413 or something else each time I run it.
I downloaded the script from wolfram's website, so I know it is the correct/official one. I do not have any good guesses for why the wrong checksum is being computed or why it is different every time. I tried bypassing this check by manually editing the relevant function in the shell script, but then the install fails at the next step with output
Wolfram Mathematica 14.3.0 for LINUX Installer Archive
Verifying archive integrity.
Extracting installer. ........Extraction failed. No space left on .625963
.Removing temporary files.
I am also confused by this. It seems some tar command is failing under the hood, but I do not know why. It certainly is not because of a lack of space; I have hundreds of gigabytes free, and while Mathematica is pretty big, it's not that big.
At this point, I am very confused about what is causing these issues, so I thought I would turn to the interest for help. Does anyone here have any suggestions?
Some extra considerations
I know the installation script itself is fine. I pulled out an old laptop and tried running it on there, and it worked with no issue. If it matters, my current computer is running Ubuntu 25.10, but the old one is running 25.04.
The
md5sumfunction on my (current) laptop also appears to being working correctly. I tested this viaecho -n "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | md5sumand comparing the output to this example given on Wikipedia.If it matters, my computer has two physical SSDs in it. One is basically a huge storage partition and is where the install script is downloaded. The other has my Linux partition (as well as a separate Windows partition for emergencies). I doubt this matters for anything, but figured I'd mention it just in case.
Let me know if I can provide any more information about my setup/computer, if I should provide any snippets of the installation shell script, or if I can share anything else that might be helpful. Also let me know if there is a better place to ask for help with this. Thanks.
