Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:50:40 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Cc: FreeBSD emulation <freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Matlab 5.3 Message-ID: <19990602235040.B5623@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <14165.38910.206452.281058@knock.econ.vt.edu>; from Russell D. Murphy Jr. on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 05:14:52PM -0400 References: <14165.38910.206452.281058@knock.econ.vt.edu>
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On 1999 Jun 02, Russell D. Murphy Jr. (aka rdmurphy@neale.econ.vt.edu) wrote:
>
> I'm trying (again) without success to install Matlab. I'm using:
There are two main ways of doing this.
1) Use a supported platform (a linux box or actually a digital unix or
sun or whatever will also unpack the linux distribution too) to unpack
it onto an nfs mount or a local directory, tar it up and change the
MATLABDIR stuff, and modify a few other key scripts that use the
/bin/uname command and look for linux (Linux?) and lie to them :).
2) A very, very ugly and tedious process. The installation scripts
for Matlab are pure evil. I stupidly did not do version one :)
It bascially boils down to unpacking the cdrom onto a hardrive,
making a LOT of changes including untarring and gzipping several
files making the relevant modifications listed above and repacking
everything and then installing.
I haven't done this in a while, but I will be soon. I have some
notes that I will include from Matlab5.2; be prepared to pull chunks
of hair out. You will probably need to do steps involving the
pd/tar.cmp for each of the toolboxes too. This was for a base install.
Good Luck
S
Here are my install notes, more or less :) These were aided by
discussion with Tom Bartol from the Salk Institute (thanks Tom).
1) cd /bin
2) ln pax tar
*this is critical; /bin/tar is hard coded into the tsetup and xsetup
linux executables...grrr, this caused the majority of my troubles*
3) copy all of the cdrom to a disk somewhere, $CDROM (in my case it
was on another machine and then I did an nfs mount ... see below).
4) apply the arch.sh patch that you recommended
> $CDROM/install
> $CDROM/update/install/arch.sh
> $CDROM/update/install/linstall
> $CDROM/update/install/install/arch.sh
> $CDROM/update/install/etc/util/arch.sh
*** arch.sh Tue Jul 8 09:58:10 1997
--- arch.sh.freebsd Tue Jul 8 09:58:42 1997
***************
*** 70,75 ****
--- 70,81 ----
:
;;
esac
+ elif [ -f /usr/bin/uname ]; then # FreeBSD?
+ case "`/usr/bin/uname`" in
+ FreeBSD)
+ Arch="lnx86"
+ ;;
+ esac
elif [ -f /bin/arch ]; then # early sun4
Arch="`/bin/arch`"
fi
5) Since the good folks at the Mathworks worked feverishly to make
it difficult, you also have to: upack 3 different tar.cmp (tar.tar.Z)
and add the arch.sh patch
> $CDROM/upate/pd/lm/tar.cmp
etc/util/arch.sh (note: this is what the install leaves in $MATLAB/etc/util)
> $CDROM/upate/pd/matlab/tar.cmp
bin/util/arch.sh (note: this is what the install leaves in $MATLAB/bin/util)
> $CDROM/upate/pd/install/tar.cmp
install/arch.sh
install_matlab (final version of the master install script)
6) while you have these tar files unpacked, there is one more little hack that
has to get put in in the osversion check business: (sorry I don't have
a diff convenient)
add:
elif [ -f /usr/bin/uname ]; then
case $Arch in
lnx86)
ver='2.0.18'
;;
esac
This needs to end up in:
$CDROM/install
$CDROM/update/install/linstall
$CDROM/update/pd/install/tar.cmp (in install_matlab)
$CDROM/update/pd/matlab/tar.cmp (in bin/util/oscheck.sh)
7) I then nfs mounted this on /cdrom on my freebsd and did
/cdrom/install &
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