Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:42:15 -0500 From: Vijay Kaul <vijaykaul@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing Matlab Message-ID: <CAOgC9Oi=Mt-tgjQpzmGJGS9gYiS5RsEtPVhP4X=viSKh9tz%2Bpw@mail.gmail.com>
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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: <http://matrossi.blogspot.com/2011/08/installing-matlab-2011a-on-freebsd.html>, 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: <http://pastebin.com/QkEH1vkF>; Thanks again, --Vijay
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