documentation/docs/engineering-guide/matlab.md

Matlab Infrastructure

Matlab is provided on a central share for use on RHEL9+ systems. The share is lx-fs.psi.ch:/applications/matlab

Installation

To install a new version of Matlab follow these steps:

• Download the iso file of the desired Matlab version from Mathworks.(this can usually only be done by the licence manager of PSI - at the time of writing dario.paolozzi@psi.ch)
• Mount the iso file on a linux system with a graphical environment

mount -o loop,ro /matlab/R2024b_Update_3_Linux.iso /matlab/iso/

• Start the graphical installer and specify the installation path

xhost +SI:localuser:root
sudo -H ./install
xhost -SI:localuser:root

• Specifying the network license file

$ cat network.lic 
SERVER matlablicsrv ANY 1700
USE_SERVER