MathWorks Installation Help

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Click the network license you want to use.
3
Click the Install and Activate tab and then click Activate to Retrieve License File.
4
Obtain the host ID of the computer on which you intend to run the network license manager. See
What is a Host ID? in MathWorks Answers.
5
Specify the operating system type and host ID of the computer on which you intend to run the
network license manager. You can optionally assign a descriptive label to the activation as well.
Click Continue.
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Answer "No" to Is the software already installed? and click Continue.
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Select either Download the License File or Email License File.
Whichever option you selected, remember to save the license file to the server where you will be
installing the network license manager.
Click Continue.
For this workflow, you can skip steps 2 and 3 in License Center and continue following these
instructions.
Step 2. Download Installer
1
On a computer connected to the Internet, download the MathWorks product installer from the
Downloads page on the MathWorks website.
2
Copy the installer files and the license file to the server where you will be installing the network
license manager.
Step 3: Start Installer
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Start the installer.
• Windows Systems
If you click Run when you select the installer on the MathWorks website, the installer starts
automatically. If you saved the installer instead, double-click the self-extracting installer file in
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Install Network License Manager
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the folder where you saved it. The name of the self-extracting installer file is
matlab_release_$ARCH, where release is the release you are installing (for example
R2020a) and $ARCH is the selected architecture.
The installer should start automatically after file extraction is complete.
To restart the installer later, click setup.exe. This file is located in the top level of the folder
where you extracted the files.
• macOS Systems
Double-click the dmg file that you downloaded from the MathWorks website. Double-click
InstallForMacOSX.app.
• Linux Systems
Use the unzip command to extract the files from the archive file that you downloaded from
the MathWorks website. After extracting the files, execute the installer command:
./install