Matlab release 2007a for Windows

General Information

It is not necessary to remove the existing setup for any earler version of Matlab. More than one version can appear, for example, in your 'Programs' menu. This version requires about 1 GB of local disk space.

You can check out the extensive 2007a Release Notes for this version.

Copies of the Matlab installation are on the SAN servers, accessible for installation onto your local PC through the Xweb.

This procedure requires administrator privileges on your machine.

Begin by going to the Xweb webpage:

xweb.slac.stanford.edu

• Find the entry in the list for Mathworks Matlab 2007a. Click on the "Click to Install" button to the right.

• On the next page, click on the "I Agree" to license conditions button at the bottom of the page.

• In the following menu, click at the top on "Install", associated with "Step 1".

• On the next "File Download" page, you can choose either "Run" or "Save". The first choice might be easiest. It will download the installation files, automatically proceed to unzip the dowloaded installation files and then invoke the vendor installation program. The "Save" option only downloads the installation files. You would then have to go to the location where you saved the downloaded files and doubleclick on the setup.exe file, which would initiate the install.

• On the next security warning page, click again on "Run", in case that is what you chose in the previous step.

• After the files have been downloaded, and sometimes following a wait of several minutes with no window appearing or other indication of anything happening, a window finally does appear, indicating that the files are being unzipped (if you selected 'run' previously).

• In the 'Welcome to the MathWorks Installer' menu, select the default 'Install' option.

• In the next menu, along with your usual Name and Company info, you are prompted to enter the so-called PLP number, which is, for the floating licenses:

  17-32507-13246-65342-63103-42899-16068-43365

• In the next screen "License File", you are prompted for the path of the license file. Your entry here is more or less a formality, since the actual licensing is handled by your setting up of the LM_LICENSE_FILE variable. Enter or Browse to:

  V:\CAE\Matlab\R2007a\License\license.dat

• On the following screen "License Agreement" check the box by "Yes".

• Next is the 'Installation Type' menu, in which you presented with the choices 'Typical' and 'Custom'. 'Custom' allows you to remove items to install from a subsequent list. The only items on the list are those for which we have licenses. 'Typical' installation bypasses the list of licensed features and installs all of the (licensed) features. Thus, 'typical' leads to the simplest procedure.

  The toolboxes associated with the above PLP, for concurrent (floating) licenses are:

  MATLAB
  Simulink
  Control System Toolbox
  Image Processing Toolbox
  MATLAB Compiler
  Optimization Toolbox
  Partial Differential Equation Toolbox
  Signal Processing Toolbox
  Simulink Control Design
  System Identification Toolbox

• So if you would like all of these toolboxes installed on your PC, you can 'choose' 'Typical" (installation). If you want to pick and choose from among the list above, choose "Custom".

  If you want only the toolboxes (and of course the main Matlab product) that are associated with your own PLP for your group or individual license, then you can reference just your own PLP and not the one given above.
  The PLP number associated with your group you can get either from the group administrator. If you have trouble with that process, you can also contact Bob Boeninger for this information.
  The PLP number associated with your individual Matlab license would normally be emailed to you by the Mathworks as part of your license purchase.

• In the 'Folder Selection' menu, you can "Browse" to the local Folder where you want to install Matlab.

• The next 'Confirmation' menu lists the options you selected. Clicking on 'install' allows the installation to commence.

• Only the toolboxes that are associated with the license PLP you entered will be listed.

  Only those, therefore, can be installed. You may want to install other toolboxes associated with other licenses, such as a group license you may be associated with. In that case you can repeat this installation procedure using your other PLP number. Then only items associated with that license will be listed. If you choose "Custom" rather than "Typical" install, you can select just the toolboxes you have not yet installed.

• Near completion of the installation several pop-up "File Extension Warning" windows appear asking whether you want to associate certain file extensions with the Matlab application. You can respond according to your preference.

• At the completion of the installation, in the "Setup Complete" window, click on the "Finish" button.

• Although the install process does not prompt for the text to be provided for the Programs Folder entry, the default turns out to be just "MATLAB". One level deeper shows the actual version: R2007a. You can change this label to whatever you like by manually editing the entry in the "All Users" Programs Folder.
  

• If not already done earlier:

Set up the reference to the license file

• Log in as the local Administrator.

• Get to the area: Start/Settings/Control Panel

• Double-click on the "System" icon.

• In the next menu, select tab "Advanced", followed by "Environment"

• Set System variable 'LM_LICENSE_FILE' to include an entry for the Matlab license as follows:

• If the variable is already set, but does not include the following path, add the following entry to the beginning of the list of other entries, preceded by ';', otherwise initialize the list of values with:

  27010@sunlics1;27010@sunlics2;27010@sunlics3;

• Make sure you do NOT have the LM_LICENSE_FILE variable defined twice, both as a User and as a System variable. If you do, consolidate the values into a single definition, preferably as a System variable.

• Click on 'Set', then on 'Apply', then on 'OK'

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Last updated: March 19, 2007