Specifications

Appendix D

Matlab 6.1

D.1 Preparation

Before we can start installing Matlab 6.1, some settings in Debian need to be changed. First of all

it has to be possible to start programs from CD. Open /etc/fstab in any text-editor. In the same

line as /dev/cdrom add the option exec.

/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0

It is now possible to mount a CD with the command mount /dev/cdrom.

Next the package locales has to be reconﬁgured with the command:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Choose for locales:

• en_US ISO-8859-1

• en_US ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15

• en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Leave the standard locale as it is with leave alone.

D.2 Installation

Now we can start installing Matlab 6.5. Mount the Matlab-CD with the command:

mount /dev/cdrom

Copy the license-ﬁle to the installation directory so we can make use oﬀ the stand-alone license. This

can be any directory, hereafter we use /usr/local/matlab6p1. Create this and a subdirectory

with

mkdir /usr/local/matlab6p1

mkdir /usr/local/matlab6p1/etc

and copy from CD the ﬁle license.dat to /usr/local/matlab6p1/etc with

cp /cdrom/crack/license.dat /usr/local/matlab6p1/etc/

Next start the Matlab installer with

/cdrom/install &

Use for root directory of the Matlab installation /usr/local/matlab6p5. Customize the parts you

want to be installed, but choose at least:

• Matlab

• Matlab Toolbox

• Matlab Kernel