Matlab 2013a (Student Version) won't install on Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
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I have the latest version of the MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks installed. I am unable to install the student version of Matlab R2013a, which I purchased from my university. I double-click the "InstallForMacOSX" icon on the CD, the icon bounces in my dock for about a minute, then just sits there and nothing happens (the little light underneath indicating that a program is running is not there). When I try clicking the icon on the dock, it disappears and nothing happens. From what I can tell from the site, this version should have no problems on Mavericks. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks, Joe
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Andrew Gibb
on 9 Jul 2014
I have a similar problem. For me the doc icon appears, at the same time as a splash screen. They stay for about 5 seconds, then both disappear. I tried installing the Java 6 update from here, and restarted, but that doesn't seem to have improved anything. Does anyone have a solution? I'm on R2013a commercial, under Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks.
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ByeongHoon Kim
on 28 Aug 2014
I have same problem on my mac T.T... Is anyone solved??
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Roger
on 29 Aug 2014
If you do contact support, please mention Re: Installation Start Problem [ ref:_00Di0Ha1u._500i0ByXzk:ref ] to synchronise with my report of this problem to Matlab. Thanks.
ByeongHoon Kim
on 1 Sep 2014
But my downloaded files are not shape of compressed file. So I cannot understand the process of "unzipping". When I just moved my files to Downloads/install, it still doesn't work at all...
Walter Roberson
on 12 Feb 2014
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Andrew Gibb
on 29 Aug 2014
I tried installing Java 6, and the installation still failed. I was advised by a Mathworks advisor to remove Java 8. This allowed me to install successfully.
I followed instructions I found elsewhere when researching this problem about unzipping one of the files which produces a folder, which includes the InstallForOSX executable script. Then I put the other zip files inside this folder.
Muhammad Iqbal Hamid
on 17 Feb 2014
Hi,
I am facing the same problem in installing Matlab on Mavericks 10.9. After clicking InatallforMacOSX, the icon starts jumping in the dock area. After about five minutes it stopped. I ejected the disk I just bought from Amazon, and then tried again. After two tries I noticed the Icon of InstallforMacOSX changed. Instead of standard matlab mountain peak icon, it was showing an icon similar to App store but a bit tilted to right. I totally cannot understand what happened. Could somebody please help me.
Best regards, Iqbal Hamid
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Hector Arismendi
on 15 Apr 2014
I have the dame problem, installformacosx doesn't start, only bounces and nothing happens, someone has solve that problem?
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