Comments on: Matlab and Snow Leopard Compatability

By: Elric

Elric — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:19:15 +0000

Thanks Magnus, your comment helped me get Matlab 2009a working.

By: Priya

Priya — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:46:45 +0000

@Phil..that was straight forward to do. I had the same problem and your solution to change the Java to 32 bit worked! Thanks

By: Ken Atwell (MathWorks)

Ken Atwell (MathWorks) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:58:59 +0000

Andre –

There is a patch for the mmreader problem you ran into:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/search_results?search_executed=1&keyword=576529&release_filter=Exists+in&release=168&selected_products=&commit=Search

By: Phil B

Phil B — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:35:59 +0000

I also found a solution from another website which worked for me (I didn’t try this one I’m afraid). Open your Java Preferences (Spotlight–>Java Pref) and drag the default mode to 32-bit. When I then tried the activation again, it worked fine, no problems.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:03:05 +0000

Hi aggain. I manage to fix this after a lot of tinkering. If you get an “unexpected error .. null .. Se logfile /var….) Then it seems that the activation program cant write to the Matlab package. To fix this you have to go to http://www.mathworks.com and activate your license manually. Follow the steps on the web page and get the License key and license file. Now install the program using the manual (not connected to internet) mode and paste your License Key there. After install you have to manually put the License file in the license directory for your Matlab installation. This is easy. Go to your Applications-folder and ctrl click the Matlab 2009a icon. Click “Show Package Contents” and go into the folder “licenses”. Now take your downloaded “license.dat” -file and move it here. And thats it. Your done.
Hope this will help someone else who has had problems with this.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:24:59 +0000

Hi. I’m running Snow Leopard and Matlab 2009a, and I am having some problems activating it. Did you have any problems installing/activating your Matlab install? And if you did, how did you fix that anoying activation bug?