Installing and Using MATLAB on Mac OS X

Product Licensing

When you purchase products, The MathWorks sends you license information by e-mail or fax. You use this licensing information to create a License File. If you did not receive your license information, see Obtaining Your License File from The MathWorks.

The license information you received from The MathWorks contains a set of license passcodes. These license passcodes

• Identify the products you are licensed to install and use.
• Specify the number of users that may use each product (also known as the keys associated with a license).
• Specify the expiration date of each license.
• Specify whether it's a user-based license.

The following is a sample set of license passcodes sent by The MathWorks. Lines that begin with a pound sign (#) are comments. The TMW_Archive INCREMENT line specifies the products you are licensed to install. The other INCREMENT lines identify products you are licensed to run. In this example, the USER_BASED keyword in the INCREMENT lines indicate it's a user-based license.

• # BEGIN-------cut here-------CUT HERE-------BEGIN
  # MATLAB license passcode file for use with FLEXlm.
  # LicenseNo: 12345         HostID: ID=12345
  INCREMENT TMW_Archive MLM 13 01-jan-0000 0 9CC411EC7ACCB4A810 \
    VENDOR_STRING="f" HOSTID=DEMO SN=12345
  INCREMENT MATLAB MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 BCECD30AD121BBA7E9917 \
    USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  INCREMENT SIMULINK MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 2C5C2C89EF83B8EAD8FD \
    USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  INCREMENT Control_Toolbox MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 \
    7CACA7BA05CA5C5E38C1 USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  INCREMENT Identification_Toolbox MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 \
    EC5C687AGD025B2AD73A USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  # END---------cut here-------CUT HERE-------END
  

Creating a License File

When you receive your license e-mail message from The Mathworks, open a text file, using a text editor, and copy the section of the message marked by the BEGIN and END lines into that text file. Name the file license.dat and store it on your desktop or in any convenient directory. We recommend you save the license.dat file on your desktop because the Installer will automatically find it and use it for the installation. If you save it in a different location, you will have to locate it for the Installer. For more detailed information about License Files and licensing, see the License Management chapter in the Installation Guide for UNIX.

When creating a License File, note the following:

• Make sure you remove any line breaks that may have been inserted between the start and end of an INCREMENT line by your e-mail program. If you need to continue an INCREMENT line onto more than one line, use the \ (backslash) character, as in the following:

• INCREMENT Identification_Toolbox MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 \
    9CDC648190C0F37C7C30 USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  

• Leave a space between each field in the INCREMENT line.
• Do not use tabs to separate the fields in an INCREMENT line.
• Save the License File on your desktop or note its location so you can locate it during the installation process.

Note    If your editor gives you the option of using Macintosh or UNIX line endings, you must select UNIX.

If you received your license passcodes in a fax, create the License File in the same way, typing in the license passcode information exactly as it appears in the fax. Note that License Files are case sensitive.

Obtaining Your License File from The MathWorks

If you do not have your License File, you can obtain it by contacting The MathWorks via:

• The Web at www.mathworks.com/mla. Log in to MATLAB Access using your last name and Access number. MATLAB Access membership is free of charge and available to all customers. The primary contact on each license is automatically enrolled in MATLAB Access. The contacts receive their Access number via e-mail.
• E-mail at service@mathworks.com.
• Telephone at 508-647-7000, ask for Customer Service. To find the phone number of one of our international offices, go to the MathWorks Web site at www.mathworks.com and click Contact Us at the top of the page.
• Fax at 508-647-7001.

Please have ready, or include in your e-mail or fax, the following items:

• Your e-mail address.
• Your License Number:
• If you have not previously installed MATLAB at your site, you can find your License Number on the upper right corner of the packing slip. Customers outside North America may obtain this information from their local MathWorks representative.
• The host ID for the machine on which you plan to run FLEXlm, the licensing software used by the MathWorks products. Two ways to determine your host ID are:
• Open the Apple System Profiler application in /Applications/Utilities. Look in the Network overview of the System Profile to find your Mac's Ethernet Address. For example, 8.0.2b.e6.87.59
• You can also use the command

• netstat -I en0

  assuming en0 is the Ethernet interface. Use the period-separated address such as 8.0.2b.e6.87.59. Note: To use this address as a host ID, you must remove all periods (.) and prefix any single-digit parts of the address with a zero (0). For example, the host ID for the address above would be 08002be68759. For more information on determining your host ID, see the Installation Guide for UNIX.

Note    Be sure to provide the host ID of the system on which you plan to run FLEXlm, not the host ID of a client workstation.

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