From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 21:42:26 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A75D655 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:42:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vijaykaul@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f47.google.com (mail-ee0-f47.google.com [74.125.83.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F51F5F for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f47.google.com with SMTP id e52so1504496eek.34 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:42:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=g179lfasAjPRH7BDNdgdRjOE7P9sNaTUZEGI9Qcr+Ag=; b=Oc6Dbqe77HTqn1sUKCDYRD2pvKKvvgi9tzLFVHQvje7WFkte9vxzV86DP4hHg9wSXJ vwLpmofXlkkWGObgPbGPkn2dtJHflCevftNPocP1ejcmkTF6o44Oe4hno6S6jtOIkZUn rFjitvpJajuIyKcJ3cUkusGotmpMKFh6Whx6IBRHUol26bUxP23r8WFGB/4AcygvlOnZ Xo8Sth5va+5lL/omR4VWEY5XtzySwDZnMMKU6jy4O/dAw4LTgUrQ6LHZqwCMf5Z+WARG KOHadixmv3tFmnoMx3MQQz9ASmYJVAt0oNb8nyOXx67CssI2d0sMitXT9bkEtHCSjSeK vkEw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.14.219.129 with SMTP id m1mr674826eep.16.1360878138600; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.142.206 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:42:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:42:15 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Installing Matlab From: Vijay Kaul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:42:26 -0000 I was wondering if anyone has had any recent (or not-so-recent) experience installing Matlab on FreeBSD/PC-BSD? (Yes, I know about octave.) I'm not entirely new to *nix, but I'm novice enough that I can't seem to get this to work. Perhaps the shortest and simplest solution would be if Mathworks own installer would function, but that runs as a Java Web Start application, and I can't seem to get that working in Opera, Firefox, or Konqueror. The automatic rout having failed, I've downloaded the files manually, and I've tried to run the install script; however, it's failed as well. I found this site: , which claims installation instructions for PC-BSD8.2 boiling down to: open up the shell scripts and take /bin/sh --> /compat/linux/bin/sh. Well, that seems to help a bit, but it also fails because the install script determines my architecture to be x68, while the downloads are for (what they call) a64. (My system is indeed a 64-bit system. Perhaps the above instructions were for an x86 system.) I feel like if I could modify the install script sufficiently, the install would work. My bash scripting is weak, though, and I worry about screwing up my system and/or the installation. There are only a few functions in there that are looking for architecture type, usually with the output from uname. I think fixing those would work...? Could anyone help me get past this point? Thanks in advance! And please, if there's any info I can provide that would be helpful, please just let me know. Output of uname -a: FreeBSD pcbsd-8517 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #2: Tue Nov 27 03:45:16 UTC 2012 root@darkstar:/usr/obj/pcbsd-build90/fbsd-source/9.1/sys/GENERIC amd64 The install script in question: Thanks again, --Vijay