{"id":177,"date":"2011-10-13T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-03-28T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:26:06","slug":"matlab-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/matlab-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Software &#8211; Matlab 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building a deployable and completely silent software installer for Matlab on windows is a bit of an adventure .\u00a0 Clearly, each installation is different so I don&#8217;t think I can give a detailed step-by-step recipe here for every circumstance.\u00a0 I can give you a few steps which took me a while to piece together from various sources and a considerable amount of trial and error &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extract the installer from the vendor to a new, empty folder<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to replace the generic &#8220;archives&#8221; folder which may initially contain only the license manager with the archives folder you have specific for the Matlab products you need to install<\/li>\n<li>Create an <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/files\/2011\/10\/installer_input.txt\" target=\"_blank\">installer input file<\/a> with all the questions answered (a copy of ours is attached , remember to change the auth-code to your real auth code, ours is scrubbed out in this example)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>For a completely silent install also change the &#8220;mode=automated&#8221; to &#8220;mode=silent&#8221; in this installer input file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>If you run this in a non-FlexLM environment you also have to deal with the activation process (we run FlexLM here to simplify the process, so I can&#8217;t help you with that process &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have a copy of your network license file to copy into a known place for the installer to point at<\/li>\n<li>Run the installer from a batch script with commands like:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>echo Copying network license file &#8230;<br \/>\nxcopy \/Q \/Y &#8220;%install_dir%payload\\matlab_network.dat&#8221; c:\\windows\\temp\\<\/p>\n<p>echo Installing software and required conponents &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;%install_dir%payload\\bin\\win64\\setup.exe&#8221; -inputFile &#8220;%install_dir%payload\\wc_installer_input.txt&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where %installdir% is set to the directory where you are running the installation.  Also mind the line breaks shown here are not intended for the actual commands &#8230;. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a deployable and completely silent software installer for Matlab on windows is a bit of an adventure .\u00a0 Clearly, each installation is different so I don&#8217;t think I can give a detailed step-by-step recipe here for every circumstance.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/matlab-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10085],"tags":[10111,73524,10088],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-matlab","tag-software","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}