Installation guide

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Running the Installer Noninteractively
If you have many MATLAB installations to perform, and the information
you need to enter for each installation is the same, you can put this
information in an installer initialization file and run the MathWorks Installer
noninteractively. The initialization file provides the installer with the
information that you would otherwise provide using installer dialog boxes.
Noninteractive installs (also called silent installs) can save time and prevent
errors.
Using an Installer Initialization File
To run the installer noninteractively, perform these steps:
1 Create your installer initiaUzation file.
The MathWorks provides an initialization file template, named
installer. ini, located in the top-level folder on the MathWorks CD. Using
Windows Explorer, create a copy of this template file in any convenient
folder, giving it any name you want. For example, you might create the
initialization file
C:\temp\my_install.ini
2 Open your copy of the initialization file, using any text editor, and enter
all the required installation information. The initiaUzation file template
includes parameters for all the information you need to enter. For
example, to specify where you want to install products, set the value of the
destination parameter to the full path ofthe installation folder.
d6Stination=C:\Program Fil6S\MATLAB\R2006b
There are several required parameters, such as name, company name,
and PLP. If your initialization file is missing a required field, the installer
stops the installation and writes an error to the output log. Two optional
parameters you might want to set are visible and outlog.
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