MATLAB: Archlinux integration

This PKGBUILD creates an Arch Linux package for MATLAB Additionally; it also builds python engine.

WARNING, this package NEEDS you to obtain the files; as the files are too large to host elsewhere.

Tips

• You probably want to run this locally; since the package will be large. If you are managing your own repos; depending on bandwidth and size constrants; exclude this package from your workflow. (Partial install is around 8 GB; and full install about 16 GB)
• Turn off compression if this package will only be installed on the build machine; this cuts a fair amount of time from the build and compression is unneccessary on local machines.
• Set MATLAB_INTEL_OVERRIDE='yes' in your environment if hardware acceleration does not work on your Intel GPU.

Requirements

Besides the dependencies; the source files MUST be present at the directory. The user MUST supply;

• matlab.fik: Plain text file installation key
• matlab.lic: License file
• matlab.tar: Software tarball

Then run makepkg -s from the PKGBUILD directory to build the package.

File Installation Key & Licence File:

Here is the current link to the instructions

File installation key identifies this specific installation of matlab. The license file authorizes that this key can use the toolboxes. Follow the steps;

• Go to License center on mathworks
• On install and activate tab; select (or create) an appropriate license
  • If no license is listed because you're using your organization's license and this is your first time installing MATLAB, click the link for manual activation. Insert the MAC address of a network card on your PC in the Host ID field, as for the username, it'll have to be the one of the account (on your Arch installation) that will be using MATLAB.
• Navigate to download the license file and the file installation key
• Download the license file and put the file in the repository
• Copy and paste the file installation key in a plain text file

Tarball

To run the installer, libselinux is needed!

• Download the matlab installer
• Unpack and launch the installer
• After logging in and accepting license; select Advanced Options > I want to download without installing from the top dropdown menu.
• Set the download location to an empty directory called matlab
• Select the toolboxes you want in the PKGBUILD. (Alternatively install them all)
• After downloading; from the parent directory; do tar --create --verbose --file matlab.tar matlab to create the tarball.

Large files

To transport large files in fat32 media (most flash drives); use split and cat;

• Split: split --bytes 3G --numeric-suffixes=0 matlab.tar.gz matlab.tar.gz.
• Concatenate: cat matlab.tar.gz.* > matlab.tar.gz

Modules

Matlab comes with a lot of products. Most are not needed; check PKGBUILD to pick and choose appropriately.