MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix

System Requirements

Note    For the most up-to-date information about system requirements, see the support area at the MathWorks Web site, www.mathworks.com.

This section describes hardware and software requirements for running the MATLAB software and the FLEXlm license manager. Minimum system resources are:

• 90 MB free disk space for MATLAB only (215 MB to include MATLAB online help files)
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB RAM recommended
• 128 MB swap space (recommended)

Minimum system hardware and software requirements are:

• CD-ROM drive (for installation)
• Netscape Navigator 4.0 and above or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and above is required.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 is required to view and print the MATLAB online documentation in PDF format.
• TCP/IP is required on all platforms when using a license server.
• FLEXlm 8.0, installed by the MATLAB installer.
• For Linux, MATLAB 6.5 will only run in a glibc (libc6) environment. The libc5 environment is no longer supported.
• X Windows (X11R5)

The following system configurations are supported.

Note    Make sure that your system has the most current operating system and hardware patches recommended by your system vendor.

Vendor	Hardware	Operating System	Version
Sun	SPARC, ULTRA	Solaris	2.6, 2.7, 2.8
HP	PA-RISC 1.1	HP-UX (See notes below)	10.20
HP	PA-RISC 2.0	HP-UX	11.0
SGI	R5000, R8000, R10000, R12000	IRIX, IRIX 64	6.5.8 (minimum)
IBM	RS/6000	AIX	4.3.3, 5.1
Compaq	Alpha	Tru64 UNIX (See notes below)	4.0f, 5.0, 5.1
Linux	Pentium, Pentium Pro, II, III, IV, Xeon AMD Athlon, Athlon XP	ix86 - Linux (See notes below) X Windows (X11R6)	2.2.x, 2.4.x kernel

Additional System Requirement Notes

• You must choose the UNIX platform on which you intend to run MATLAB from the Product List dialog box. This dialog box offers two choices for HP systems: HP-700 and HP-UX. Your choice of HP platform depends on the combination of hardware and operating system that you are running. This table is a matrix of the supported HP operating system and hardware combinations with their platform designation.
  
  

  	PA-RISC 1.1	PA-RISC 2.0
  HP-UX 10.20	HP-700	HP-700
  HP-UX 11.0	n/a	HP-UX

• For Compaq Tru64 UNIX, you must install the Fortran run-time shared libraries, which are on a separate disk provided by Compaq, named the "Associated Products CD." The C++ shared libraries are installed as part of the base Tru64 package.
• These library versions or newer are required for Linux:
• glibc 2.1.x or 2.2 (recommend 2.1.2 or better)
• gcc 2.95.2 (gcc, g++, g77) (If you are building your own MEX files)
• xFree86 3.3.x (recommend 3.3.6 or better)
• Linux 2.2.x or 2.4.x
• Systems running Linux on a Power PC or a Compaq Alpha are not supported.

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