Re: Problems installing Matlab 6.0

[Mitch Collinsworth <mitch ccmr cornell edu>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Trevor Hamm wrote:

>> Hello, 
>> I'm trying to install Matlab 6.0 on my Alpha ev56,
>> running RedHat 6.2, but the install programm 
>> is not able to determine the OS. As I know that
>> someone has already installed Matlab I would
>> like to know how did he do it.
>> Thanks in advance, Lello
>> 
>> 
>Bottom line: It won't work :-(
>
>We tried installing Matlab 6 on our LX164 machines. The OS and
>architecture checks can be easily bypassed by supplying the right
>command-line options to the install script ('-alpha', I think), but the
>script will probably fail when it tries to stat your destination
>directory. We finally got it installed by running the installation on an
>ancient alpha running DU 4.0, then copying the whole directory tree over
>to the Linux machine. But the Matlab binary wouldn't work with the current
>offering of Tru64-compat, it would always quit with unresolved
>symbols. Matlab 6 says it requires Tru64 UNIX 5.0 to run, and they
>apparently mean it. We ended up getting a dual-PIII system with Redhat 7.0
>to run it.

So, how did you make that work?  I thought the only OS supported by
Matlab on Intel hardware is NT.

-Mitch