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layers
October 18th, 2010, 03:14 PM
Hi. I have never installed anything on Ubuntu from files, and I do not know how to do it. There are have been internet pages I have visited, but each one tells you to do it in a different method, and each one is more complicated that the last. So, I was wondering if anyone knows the simplest way of installing Matlab - I have these files:

ibo@ibo-laptop:~$ ls -l Desktop/matlab
total 1732
-rw-r--r-- 1 ibo ibo 3262 2010-10-11 14:43 activate.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 ibo ibo 43320 2010-10-11 14:43 install
drwx------ 3 ibo ibo 4096 2010-10-11 14:35 InstallForMacOSX.app
-rw-r--r-- 1 ibo ibo 73937 2010-10-11 14:43 license.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 ibo ibo 1615703 2010-10-11 14:43 mac_install_guide.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 ibo ibo 5839 2010-10-11 14:43 readme.txt
drwx------ 6 ibo ibo 4096 2010-10-11 14:35 update
drwx------ 3 ibo ibo 4096 2010-10-11 14:35 utils
ibo@ibo-laptop:~$


What would be the easiest way?

TNT1
October 18th, 2010, 03:19 PM
Is that a mac program?

layers
October 18th, 2010, 03:44 PM
is that a mac program?

unix

TNT1
October 18th, 2010, 03:48 PM
unix

That's a broad term... Hope you get the help you need.

Don544
October 18th, 2010, 04:04 PM
Try this how to page at Clemson, but from what I saw the Linux edition contains linux in the title not Mac os x.
Hope this is some help
http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Clemson:Matlab

TNT1
October 18th, 2010, 04:05 PM
from what I saw the Linux edition contains linux in the title not Mac os x.


That's what I was getting at...

Don544
October 18th, 2010, 04:24 PM
Or you could try an iso bootable dvd with image burn and use that to install. That is if it is the linux variety.
ImgBurn supports all the Microsoft Windows (http://www.microsoft.com/) OS's - Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine (http://www.winehq.com/), it should also run on Linux (http://www.linux.org/) and other x86-based Unixes.
And image burn is freeware.
Don

Don544
October 18th, 2010, 04:36 PM
And one last
Since MATLAB is a licenced software, And each time we run MATLAB, licence verification is needed.


Scilab (http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/) is a good alternative (it is free) and as powerful as MATLAB.

http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/download

Octave which comes in RH distro CDs is also quite good.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=663634
Don

layers
October 19th, 2010, 03:39 PM
I just went with SciLab. Thanks for letting me know.

layers
November 24th, 2010, 01:57 AM
OK, so now in SciLab, I am trying to get the Laplace transform of a few functions, but this is what happens every time I try that:

-->syms s t;
!--error 4
Undefined variable: syms
Does anyone know what I have to install to make this work?

PS: I'm trying to find Laplace inverses like here:

http://www.cert.fr/dcsd/idco/perso/Magni/s_sym/html/ilaplace.html