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System Requirements - Release 2012a

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Note: Release 2012a is the last release of the 32-bit version of MATLAB for Linux. Support for the 64-bit version of MATLAB on Linux will continue. See the platform road map for more information.

Operating Systems Processors Disk Space RAM
32-Bit and 64-Bit MATLAB and Simulink Product Families

Qualified distributions*:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 11.04, 11.10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.x

Debian 6.x

Any Intel or AMD x86 processor supporting SSE2 instruction set**

1 GB for MATLAB only,
3–4 GB for a typical installation

1024 MB
(At least 2048 MB recommended)


* The listed distributions are those Linux distributions that MathWorks products have been validated against. It is likely that other distributions with kernel version 2.6 or later and glibc version 2.5 or later can successfully run MathWorks products, but MathWorks will be in a limited position to provide technical support for those distributions.

** You can find more information in Solution 1-B3MR75.

License Management

  • Some license types require a license server running FLEXnet 11.9, which is provided by the MathWorks installer. A license server that is serving multiple releases of MATLAB must use the version of FLEXnet shipped with the latest release of MATLAB being served.
  • TCP/IP is required on all platforms when using a license server.


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Support for Products on Operating Systems No Longer Supported

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