Re: Problems installing Matlab 6.0

[Mitch Collinsworth <mitch ccmr cornell edu>]

Ah, never mind.  I read "Matlab" and thought "Abaqus".  Getting
Abaqus to run on linux-alpha is something we're hoping to do here,
but we haven't tried it yet.

-Mitch


On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
>