Matlab¶

We have some copies of Matlab installed in afs under /afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab
You will need to have an individual license to use them, alas.

To setup your machine to work correctly, you will need a jre, preferably java
Useful instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

Install Java¶

1. Goto this page and install the sun update script for Java Runtime Environment. Synopsis:
   

   sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg debs all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install update-sun-jre

2. Copy the files in /afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab/<version> into /tmp
   

   rsync -avux /afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab/R2012a /tmp
   

3. move those files to a more sensible home
   

   sudo mv /tmp/R2012a /opt/matlab-2012a
   

4. Run the installer
   

   sudo /opt/matlab-2012a/install

Running matlab out of AFS¶

If you are on the RU network (or a fast network in general) you can just run matlab directly out of AFS instead of installing. This only works for linux currently.

1. Open a terminal and run the command:
   

   /afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab/current/matlab
   

For software admins¶

For preparing both architectures, read this first http://www.mathworks.se/support/solutions/en/data/1-8TH7LL/index.html?product=SL&solution=1-8TH7LL

1. Download both the 64 and 32 into the same directory using the installer at
   http://www.mathworks.se/downloads/web_downloads/select_release_and_platform. By default this
   will be /var/mathworks_downloads
2. Run the normal installer on a 64 bit machine with destintation /afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab/<version>
3. Run the installer for 32 bit and let it overwrite the files.
   

   /tmp/mathworks_downloads/<version>/install -glnx86