MatLAB can be installed using network or standalone licenses. Network license does not require registration, but can be used only on campus. You can install MatLAB on your computer following the procedure below.
To use MatLAB outside the institute you have to register for a standalone license. You can register with MAC address or (Windows only) with disk C: volume id.
To install MatLAB on Windows:
- Open the Windows Start menu and click the Run command.
- Enter \\wisfiler.weizmann.ac.il\collaboration\Software\Matlab.
- Open the folder containing the version you wish to install.
- Run setup.exe.
- Select "Use File Installation Key" option and copy the numbers from the file "File Installation Key r2017b.txt" or similar according to the version.
- Copy "weizmann.lic" file to your hard disk (the best location is C:\Program Files\MATLAB). If there is no "weizmann.lic" file, try to look in a directory of other MatLAB version.
- At the end activate MatLAB. Select "Activate manually without the Internet" and supply installer with the location of "weizmann.lic" file.
To install MatLAB on Linux:
- Ensure that you have Samba client installed by typing 'smbclient'. If not run, as root:
on Red Hat based distributions
yum install samba-client cifs-utils |
on Debian based
sudo apt-get install smbclient cifs-utils |
2. Connect to Samba share:
mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,domain=wismain //wisfiler.weizmann.ac.il/collaboration/Software/Matlab /mount_dir |
3. Press 'Enter' when you is asked for password.
cd /mount_dir |
4. Then select a version and copy MatLAB Linux iso, e.g. "R2019a_Linux.iso", "weizmann.lic", and "File Installation Key.txt":
5. Mount it and start installation:
mkdir /tmp/matlab |
6. Select "Use File Installation Key" option and copy the numbers from the provided file.
7. At the end activate MatLAB. Select "Activate manually without the Internet" and supply installer with /usr/local/weizmann.lic file.