9 When the installation successfully completes, the installer displays the following Installation Complete window. This gives you options for accessing MATLAB. Check your desired options and click Finish to complete the installation. Mathworks Install Do you want to? y Create Alias of MATLAB on the Desktop V Add MATLAB icon to the Dock ∈ Finish 10 Verify the installation by starting MatLAB and running one of the demo programs. To start MATLAB, double-click on the MatLAB icon that the installer creates on your desktop. To run the demo programs, select Demos Note The MatLAB Simulink Student Version CD must be in your CD-RoM drive to start matLaB 2-13
Installing on Mac OS X 2-13 9 When the installation successfully completes, the installer displays the following Installation Complete window. This gives you options for accessing MATLAB. Check your desired options and click Finish to complete the installation. 10 Verify the installation by starting MATLAB and running one of the demo programs. To start MATLAB, double-click on the MATLAB icon that the installer creates on your desktop. To run the demo programs, select Demos from Help. Note The MATLAB & Simulink Student Version CD must be in your CD-ROM drive to start MATLAB
Installing the MATLAB Simulink Student Version For more information The Installation guide for mac os x documentation provides additional installation information. This manual is available from Installing Additional Toolboxes To purchase additional toolboxes, visit the Math Works Store at wwmathworks. com/store). Once you purchase a toolbox, the product and its nline documentation are downloaded to your computer When you download a toolbox, you receive a file for the toolbox. Double-clicking on the downloaded files icon creates a folder that contains the installation program for the toolbox. To install the toolbox and its documentation, run the installation program by double-clicking on its icon. After you successfully install the toolbox, all of its functionality and documentation will be available to you when you start MATLAB Accessing the Online Documentation(Help) To access the online documentation(Help), select Full Product Family help from the Help menu in the mATLaB Command window. You can also type elpbrowser at the matlaB prompt. The Help browser appears Mac os x documentation In general, the documentation for Math Works products is not specific for individual platforms unless the product is available only on a particular platform For the Macintosh, when you access a product's documentation either in print or online through the Help browser, make sure you refer to the uNiX platform if there is different documentation for different platforms For More Information The Installation Guide for Mac oSx documentation provides Macintosh-specific information for this release of MATLAB and its related products. 2-14
2 Installing the MATLAB & Simulink Student Version 2-14 For More Information The Installation Guide for Mac OS X documentation provides additional installation information. This manual is available from Help. Installing Additional Toolboxes To purchase additional toolboxes, visit the MathWorks Store at (www.mathworks.com/store). Once you purchase a toolbox, the product and its online documentation are downloaded to your computer. When you download a toolbox, you receive a file for the toolbox. Double-clicking on the downloaded file’s icon creates a folder that contains the installation program for the toolbox. To install the toolbox and its documentation, run the installation program by double-clicking on its icon. After you successfully install the toolbox, all of its functionality and documentation will be available to you when you start MATLAB. Accessing the Online Documentation (Help) To access the online documentation (Help), select Full Product Family Help from the Help menu in the MATLAB Command Window. You can also type helpbrowser at the MATLAB prompt. The Help browser appears. Mac OS X Documentation In general, the documentation for MathWorks products is not specific for individual platforms unless the product is available only on a particular platform. For the Macintosh, when you access a product’s documentation either in print or online through the Help browser, make sure you refer to the UNIX platform if there is different documentation for different platforms. For More Information The Installation Guide for Mac OS X documentation provides Macintosh-specific information for this release of MATLAB and its related products
Installing on Linux Installing on linux This section describes the system requirements necessary to install the MATLAB Simulink Student Version on a Linux computer. It also provides step-by-step instructions for installing the software and documentation System Requirements Note For the most up-to-date information about system requirements, see the system requirements page available in the Support area at the MathWorksWebsite(www.mathworks.com MATLAB and simulink Pentium Ill. Pentium Iv. AMd Athlon. Athlon XP. Athlon MP. aMd Opteron(Note: Runs MATLAB in 32 bit emulation mode) Linux- built using Kernel 2.4. x and glib(glibc6)2.2.5 MATLAB and its online help alone require approximately 400 MB of disk ace 256 MB RAM minimum 512 MB RAM recommended ·64 MB swap space 16, 24 or 32-bit OpenGL capable graphics adapter CD-ROM drive for installation and program startup Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later Adobe acrobat Reader 3.0 or later is required to view and print the MatLAB online documentation that is in pdf format MEX-Files MEX-files are dynamically linked subroutines that matlAb can automatically load and execute. They provide a mechanism by which you can call your own C and Fortran subroutines from MaTlAB as if they were built-in 2-15
Installing on Linux 2-15 Installing on Linux This section describes the system requirements necessary to install the MATLAB & Simulink Student Version on a Linux computer. It also provides step-by-step instructions for installing the software and documentation. System Requirements Note For the most up-to-date information about system requirements, see the system requirements page, available in the Support area at the MathWorks Web site (www.mathworks.com). MATLAB and Simulink • Pentium III, Pentium IV, AMD Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, AMD Opteron (Note: Runs MATLAB in 32 bit emulation mode) • Linux — built using Kernel 2.4.x and glibc (glibc6) 2.2.5 • MATLAB and its online help alone require approximately 400 MB of disk space. • 256 MB RAM minimum, 512 MB RAM recommended • 64 MB swap space • 16, 24 or 32-bit OpenGL capable graphics adapter • CD-ROM drive for installation and program startup • Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later • Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later is required to view and print the MATLAB online documentation that is in PDF format. MEX-Files MEX-files are dynamically linked subroutines that MATLAB can automatically load and execute. They provide a mechanism by which you can call your own C and Fortran subroutines from MATLAB as if they were built-in functions
Installing the MATLAB Simulink Student Version For more Information "in the matlab documentation provides information on how to write MEX-files. "External Interfaces Reference" in the matlab documentation describes the collection f these functions. Both of these are available from help If you plan to build your own MEX-files, you will need a supported compiler For the most up-to-date information about compilers, see the support area at theMathWorksWebsite(www.mathworks.com Installing MATLAB The following instructions describe how to install the matlaB Simulink Student Version on a Linux computer Note On most systems, you will need root privileges to perform certain steps in the installation procedure 1 Insert the matlab Simulink student version cd in the cd-rom drive If your CD-ROM drive is not accessible to your operating system, you will need to mount the CD-rom drive on your system. Create a directory to be the mount point for it. mkdir /cdrom Mount a cd-rom drive using the command s mount /cdrom If your system requires that you have root privileges to mount a CD-ROM drive, this command should work on most systems mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom / cdrom To enable nonroot users to mount a CD-Rom drive include the exec option in the entry for CD-ROM drives in your /etc/fstab file, as in the following example 2-16
2 Installing the MATLAB & Simulink Student Version 2-16 For More Information “External Interfaces” in the MATLAB documentation provides information on how to write MEX-files. “External Interfaces Reference” in the MATLAB documentation describes the collection of these functions. Both of these are available from Help. If you plan to build your own MEX-files, you will need a supported compiler. For the most up-to-date information about compilers, see the support area at the MathWorks Web site (www.mathworks.com). Installing MATLAB The following instructions describe how to install the MATLAB & Simulink Student Version on a Linux computer. Note On most systems, you will need root privileges to perform certain steps in the installation procedure. 1 Insert the MATLAB & Simulink Student Version CD in the CD-ROM drive. If your CD-ROM drive is not accessible to your operating system, you will need to mount the CD-ROM drive on your system. Create a directory to be the mount point for it. mkdir /cdrom Mount a CD-ROM drive using the command $ mount /cdrom If your system requires that you have root privileges to mount a CD-ROM drive, this command should work on most systems. # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom To enable nonroot users to mount a CD-ROM drive, include the exec option in the entry for CD-ROM drives in your /etc/fstab file, as in the following example
Install /dev/cdrom / cdrom iso9660 noauto,r r exec o Note, however, that this option is often omitted from the /etc/fstab file for security reasons 2 Create an installation directory and move to it, using the cd command. For example, if you are going to install into the location /usr/local/matlab7, mkdir matlab7 d matlab7 Subsequent instructions in this section refer to this directory as SMATLAB 3 Start the Math Works Installer by running the install script /cdrom/install unix. sh The Math Works Installer displays the welcome dialog box. Click OK to proceed with the installation The MathWorks Installer MATLAB Installation Welcome to the MATLAB R14 student version installer. (c)Copyright 1984-2004 by The MathWorks, Inc. (506)647-7000 have pen mis sion to cr at s symbolic links to system- wide directories Cancel Note If you need additional help on any step during this installation process click the Help button at the bottom of the dialog box 2-17
Installing on Linux 2-17 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec 0 0 Note, however, that this option is often omitted from the /etc/fstab file for security reasons. 2 Create an installation directory and move to it, using the cd command. For example, if you are going to install into the location /usr/local/matlab7, use the commands cd /usr/local mkdir matlab7 cd matlab7 Subsequent instructions in this section refer to this directory as $MATLAB. 3 Start the MathWorks Installer by running the install script. /cdrom/install_unix.sh The MathWorks Installer displays the welcome dialog box. Click OK to proceed with the installation. Note If you need additional help on any step during this installation process, click the Help button at the bottom of the dialog box