Matlab on FreeBSD 5.3

[cali]

I've tried installing Matlab 13 on FBSD5.3 according to the handbook but I
can't get it to work. This is pretty annoying since it cost a lot of money.
I was really stupid, in that, I had a years technical support from
Mathwords, but kind of gave up because their suggestions got me nowhere and
it was quicker just to use a pirated copy on windows than follow their
suggestions when really that was the perfect opportunity to continually
badger them; since I was paying for it they were obliged to respond...

The problem is the license manager as far as I can tell, I can't seem to get
it to start.

OK, there are a lot of different pieces of information I could post at this
point, but I'm not sure which are most relevant. So, first of all, I think a
sensible question I should ask is this:

Has anyone on this list got Matlab 13 (aka 6.5) running on FBSD5.3? If so,
did you do this by following the instructions in the handbook verbatim, or
some other way?

thanks

cali

[Santo Natale]

Hi,
I managed to install matlab 6.5 on a freebsd 5.3, but I can't tell you exactly how I
did now, since I have no matlab here.
I remember that I played a bit with scripts regarding the detection of architecture ( I
just edited these scripts and forcely set environment variable to i386 or so ) and did few
other modifications, but they were quite simple.
You should manage to get it running, however.
hope this gives you one more hope :)
regards,
santo natale

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:37:04AM -0000, cali wrote:

> I've tried installing Matlab 13 on FBSD5.3 according to the handbook but I
> can't get it to work. This is pretty annoying since it cost a lot of money.
> I was really stupid, in that, I had a years technical support from
> Mathwords, but kind of gave up because their suggestions got me nowhere and
> it was quicker just to use a pirated copy on windows than follow their
> suggestions when really that was the perfect opportunity to continually
> badger them; since I was paying for it they were obliged to respond...
>
> The problem is the license manager as far as I can tell, I can't seem to
> get it to start.
>
> OK, there are a lot of different pieces of information I could post at this
> point, but I'm not sure which are most relevant. So, first of all, I think
> a sensible question I should ask is this:
>
> Has anyone on this list got Matlab 13 (aka 6.5) running on FBSD5.3? If so,
> did you do this by following the instructions in the handbook verbatim, or
> some other way?
>
> thanks
>
> cali

[cali]

I just got it to work, thanks to the encouragement of Santo Natale.

One thing is the architechture, to fix this you can edit the matlab binary,
which is actually a script

gvim /usr/local/bin/matlab

or whatever

if you read down you will see some stuff about

ARCH_LIST

go down below the fucntion check_archlist and at the bottom of it you will
see two conditionals that say:

ARCH=""

change these to

ARCH="glnx86"

or whatever your architechture is (it might be that you only need to change
one, but this isn't important)

Then another thing to make sure is that your hostname is set the same as the
SERVER line
in your matlab license manager file so if my hostname was "dork", then it
would say

SERVER dork ID=XXX

where you replace XXX with your user ID

you also have to make sure that you setup your options file properly in your
license file
you should have a line like:

DAEMON MLM /compat/linux/usr/local/matlab/etc/lm_matlab
options=/compat/linux/usr/local/matlab/etc/MLM.opt

and in MLM.opt it needs to say:

INCLUDE MATLAB USER blah

where blah is your user, note that I'm assuming you have a standalone
license

make sure you leave a blank line after the INCLUDE line, I know, sounds dumb
but otherwise it doesn't work.

then you just start the flexlm (not as root)

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/flexlm.sh start

and then start matlab underthe user you were configured for

matlab

and it should work... well I only just got it working so hopefully
everything works.

thanks

cali