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This was my experience with updating the Raspberry Pi software and pulling down the Mathematica software, it was all pretty seamless! I will change this as more stuff populates, and add pictures once I resize them or take more under the acceptable limit. Thanks for looking! - James K. Pray Jr.

1. Open a terminal and enter 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wolfram-engine' without the apostrophes.

2. Wait a while...the updates and download took about 45 minutes for me as I had some updating to do, and was bridged through my laptops internet, I imagine this could be as quick as 5-15 minutes if directly connected with DHCP set up correctly.

3. Tab through to select <Ok> when there is a gray box in the terminal with the agreement from Wolfram, hit Enter. This confused me as I was unable to select enter and was away from the keyboard (watching the Bruins actually!), when it happened/ came up and was unsure if it was "configuring" still, and had put this up to read in the meantime.

3. Another box appears to agree to the license terms, the Wolfram- Raspberry Pi Bundle License Agreement (Tab through to <Yes>), hit Enter.

4. There seems to be some more updating of the Oracle-Java7 jdk (java development kit), which is a dependency of Wolfram to run I am assuming.

Once all done in terminal, you may prompt Mathematica from the command line or open it up under the Education tab on the start menu.
Resources are located at wolfram.com/raspi, from there scrolling down a bit and selecting "Wolfram Mathematica Documentation (Pilot Release)" has gotten me well on my way, and Im am extremely excited to get going using it!

Forgot to mention this is on a 512MB Model B, bridged through another computers internet- James

What threw me the first time was how long it took to get a command prompt after agreeing to the license terms.

I thought the R-Pi had hung up, but it was just chewing away in the background. The second time I installed, I just left the machine alone at this point (at your Step 3) and after a while a command prompt showed up. Then I was able to go to the desktop and see both new entries under the Education tab.

So - for anyone else who was wondering, as I was - after you click "Yes" on the "Accept License Terms" screen, it will seem to hang and do nothing for several (in my case, more than eight) minutes before a command prompt returns and the software is installed.