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Installing Matlab on Mac OS X systems

Matlab is available on the following Platforms.

All computers must be enrolled in the site license program and must be registered with the network license server before they may run Matlab. We need to know the hostname of your computer to register it with the license server. The hostname and uname -n commands will display the hostname of your UNIX or Linux computer.

The Mathworks Installation Guide for MAC OS X is available here. Please, also, read the following important notes from Mathworks which apply to your OS version.

OS X 10.3 (Panther)

OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)


Create a temporary directory and download the installation files available here:

              

2006bOSX 2006bOSXIntel

Double-click on the Matlab installer matlab_installer.tar which will start the installation process.

- A license file is needed to decrypt the installation files. A copy of the license file is available via anonymous FTP from:

ftp.wss.yale.edu/pub/licensed/Matlab/license.dat

Use cut and paste to grab the license information and put it in the spot requested during installation.

Answer the questions and choose the toolboxes you wish to install. (Note: you do not need to install the license manager piece of Matlab. This is just for the campus license servers.) After the installation is complete, you may delete the temporary install files.

You will need to provide Matlab on your machine with the information it needs to contact the license servers:

Add the following entries to the /etc/hosts file:

128.36.236.21 license1.wss.yale.edu license1
128.36.236.34 license2.wss.yale.edu license2
130.132.232.125 license3.med.yale.edu license3

and the search entry in /etc/resolv.conf should include wss.yale.edu and med.yale.edu.

If you have any trouble getting to the software, please send mail to: WSS . You can arrange to borrow a copy of the installation cds for a limited amount of time.

 

Certifying authority: Paul Gluhosky
Manager, AM&T Workstation Support Services
URL: http://wss.yale.edu/matlab/inst_mac.html
Last update: 02.28.07
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