MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix

License File Overview

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 Named User license

The following is a sample set of license passcodes sent by The MathWorks. Lines that begin with a pound sign (#) are comments. The INCREMENT lines identify products you are licensed to run. The INCREMENT line containing TMW_Archive specifies all the products you are licensed to install. In this example, the USER_BASED keyword in the INCREMENT lines indicate it is a Named User 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 9CC470AGGCCB4A810 \
    VENDOR_STRING="f" HOSTID=DEMO SN=12345
  INCREMENT MATLAB MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 BCECD70AD686BGG7E9917 \
    USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  INCREMENT SIMULINK MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 2C5C2G75GF38BGGEAD8FD \
    USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  INCREMENT Control_Toolbox MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 \
    7CACA7GA23GG5C5E38C1 USER_BASED DUP_GROUP=UH SN=12345
  INCREMENT Identification_Toolbox MLM 13 01-jan-0000 1 \
    EC5C175AGG025G2AD73A 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 a text file. Name the file license.dat and store it temporarily in any convenient directory. Before you run the installer, you must move the License File to the top-level MATLAB installation directory. For more detailed information about License Files and licensing, see License Management.

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 \
    EC5C175AGG025G2AD73A 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.

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 or Changing Your License File 

If you need to

• Obtain a License File
• Transfer a license to another CPU
• Combine licenses
• Move toolboxes from one license to another
• Change a license registration
• Update your contact information

go to the MathWorks Web site at www.mathworks.com, click on Contact Us. Under Support and Service, find the Customer Service Request listing and click on the Web icon.

If you do not have Web access, you can contact The MathWorks via

• 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.

Depending on what you want to do, please have ready, or include in your e-mail or fax, the following items:

• Your e-mail address (if you have one).
• Your MATLAB 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.
• 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.
• If you are updating an existing MATLAB installation and MATLAB is running, type license or ver at the MATLAB prompt, or look in your existing license.dat file.
• The host ID for the server on which you plan to run FLEXlm, the licensing software used by the MathWorks products. On Sun workstations, you can obtain the host ID by logging in to the server and executing the UNIX command hostid. For other UNIX systems, log in to your server and follow the instructions in the section Determining Your Host ID.

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.

Product Licensing

System Requirements