Selecting subset of products for R2020a silent install

Hello,

I'm using the R2020a_Linux.iso to perform a silent install of MATLAB on an Ubuntu system with using an institutional license.

According to the installer_input.txt template, I should be able to install a subset of products. However, no matter how many or few of the products I uncomment, it appears that all licensed products are always installed.

For example, if I uncomment only the "product.Econometrics_Toolbox", the installed toolbox directory contains the following:

ls /usr/local/MATLAB/R2020a/toolbox/
5g		     compiler_sdk  experiments	idelink      mpc       rl		  simulink	       stats
aero		     control	   finance	ident	     mps       robotics		  simulink_standalone  symbolic
aeroblks	     curvefit	   fininst	images	     multisim  robust		  simulinktest	       sysarch
audio		     da		   fixedpoint	imaq	     nav       ros		  sl3d		       systemcomposer
autoblks	     database	   fixpoint	instrument   nnet      rptgen		  sl_pir_cap	       target
autoblks_utils	     datafeed	   fuzzy	javabuilder  optim     rptgenext	  slcontrol	       targetframework
bioinfo		     diagram	   geoweb	learning     parallel  rtw		  slcoverage	       textanalytics
clone_detection_app  dig	   glee		local	     pde       shared		  slde		       vision
coder		     dmr	   globaloptim	lte	     phased    signal		  sldv		       vnt
comm		     dsp	   gpucoder	map	     physmod   simbio		  slsim		       vnv
comparisons	     econ	   hdlcoder	matlab	     realtime  simevents	  sltp		       wavelet
compiler	     eml	   hdlfilter	mlhadoop     rf        simulation_pacing  stateflow

Is there another way to control which products are installed?

[Anirudh Singh]

You can try below link for silent installation:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/389223-how-do-i-silently-install-support-packages-in-matlab-r2018a-or-newer?s_tid=answers_rc1-1_p1_Topic

[Craig Willis]

Thanks. I've followed the instructions for silent installation and it's working, but the product selection isn't. Any specific advice on why product selection wouldn't work?

Answer 1

[Craig Willis]

I didn't realize that there was a product line for MATLAB itself. By also including "product.MATLAB", the subset of selected products are installed as expected. In R2019b, there was a message in the install log indicating that I hadn't installed MATLAB. In R2020a, it seems that the installer defaults to installing all licensed products.

[Greg]

Did you perhaps do anything else to get this working? I'm having the exact problem you originally mentioned (installing a subset of R2020a for an enterprise license in Linux), and it will not install less than everything. I have tried with only product.MATLAB uncommented, and also with product.MATLAB & product.MATLAB_Report_Generator uncommented. It always installs everything.

Or was your success only in R2019b?

Answer 2

[Greg]

I just discovered that if you leave the destinationFolder property commented out (i.e., you want the default without explicitly re-specifying the default), it will refuse to obey the product selections at the bottom of the file. I simply supplied a destinationFolder value, and voila, silent install worked for the first time in a decade for me.

Personally, I prefer not to re-specify default values in situations like these. If that value changes, my installations would not keep pace.

Also, the example destinationFolder value in the installer_input.txt template does not match the default install location on Linux. Interactively, the default install goes to /usr/local/MATLAB/R####x/ but the template does not include the MATLAB subfolder.

[Craig Willis]

Glad you were able to identify your problem. I don't recall needing to uncomment destinationFolder in either the R2020a or R2019b, but have been working with R2019b more recently.

Just as a side note, I did come across the option to skip the matlab_installer_input.txt altogether and simply specify values via the command line. For example:

./install -mode silent  -licensePath /tmp/network.lic -agreeToLicense yes -fileInstallationKey <key> -product.MATLAB -product.Econometrics_Toolbox

[Greg]

That's a nifty idea.

I received confirmation from TMW Install Support technicians that the destinationFolder thing is a known limitation of silent install.