Simplified MATLAB Install

Download and Installation
Follow the instructions detailed in Downloading and Installing MATLAB. An outline of these installation steps are as follows:
 * 1) Create an account at the Mathworks site using your campus @uab.edu email address. Please do not share your mathworks account username or password with anyone as this account will be associated with the UAB TAH license.
 * 2) Request an activation key from the UAB software library page. Please make sure to request the appropriate key (Faculty/staff or student) as the software are on different licenses.
 * 3) Associate your Mathworks account with the campus-wide MATLAB license using your activation key.
 * 4) Download the software from the mathworks download site and install MATLAB

Activation
Activate the software: Add the following content to the network.lic file in the installation and start MATLAB. SERVER lmgr.uabgrid.uab.edu 27000 USE_SERVER

By default, the license file location is $MATLAB\licenses for all platforms. The license file name will be network.lic

On Mac's this file is located in /Applications/MATLAB_R2010b.app/licenses/network.lic

On Linux systems it is usually located at /usr/local/matlabR2010b/licenses/network.lic (conditional to the install location being /usr/local)

NOTE: If the network.lic license file does not already exist on your system, you must create the network.lic file described above.

NOTE: Please engage in the Discussion to improve documentation of the above steps.

Installation Help
If you get stuck or have problems with the self-service installation you may contact tanthony@uab.edu for installation or usage issues,  or [mailto:support@mathworks.com support@mathworks.com]. Mathworks will want your license number: 678600.

You must be faculty, staff, post-doc, or a grad student using Mathworks software for UAB research activities to activate this software.

libXp.so.6 Error when starting MATLAB on a Red Hat / Fedora workstation
When executing 'matlab' on a Red Hat / Fedora workstation you may receive the following error:

'bin/glnxa64/MATLAB: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

The solution is to install the libXp package (this will require root privileges) $ sudo yum install libXp