On Friday 13 December 2002 21:39, Steve Miller wrote:

Hi,

I am a recently-minted (read: impoverished) PhD and am considering installing the latest version of SuSE Linux. I have a license for Matlab 5.3, and would like to avoid buying Matlab 6.1 for awhile. I have a two-part question.

it is matlab 6.5 available already, but i fully agree with you!

(1) Has anyone any experience running Matlab 5.3 on SuSE 8.x? Does it work?

YES!!! and prettty fine. you only have to install the 'shibs5' package

(2) Matlab 5.3 required libraries (which I have) and some links for compilation of C code (mex files). Has anyone tried/done this?

Well, long time ago ( when i had matlab 5.3 installed on SuSE 7,1) i had to use a special GCC 2.95 cross-compiler to i386-libc5. I even had ready-to-use binary packages somewhere, i have to find them on my CD-Rs :-). these packages wont conflict with any of your current compilers, and they get installed into separete location. all you have to do when compiling is to set your shell variables and parameters to point to that location. Though, i dont know whether matlabs internal build commands work -- i always used my own Makefiles to build my projects. (i can share them too) the normal GCC2.95 or 3.2 wont do for your needs, because they work with libc6 (aka glibc), but all matlabs 6.x work fine with gcc 2.95 shipped in all SuSE versions.

Thanks,

Steve Miller

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