Research and Development Network

h1. 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

h2. Install Java

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

<pre>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</pre>

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

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

</pre>

# move those files to a more sensible home

<pre>sudo mv /tmp/R2012a /opt/matlab-2012a

</pre>

# Run the installer

<pre>sudo /opt/matlab-2012a/install</pre>

h1. 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.

# Open a terminal and run the command:

<pre>/afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab/current/matlab

</pre>

h1. 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

# 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@

# Run the normal installer on a 64 bit machine with destintation @/afs/dev.ru.is/software/matlab/<version>@

# Run the installer for 32 bit and let it overwrite the files.

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