Matlab 2013a (Student Version) won't install on Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

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

[Andrew Gibb]

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.

Answer 1

[ByeongHoon Kim]

I have same problem on my mac T.T... Is anyone solved??

[Mahmoud]

I figured it out. You need to make a folder to unzip the file they give you. So go to downloads, make a new folder named "install" and unzip the whole file they gave you into it. Now you will be able to click the install for macosx and it will open the installer. the folder must be named "install", that's what was throwing the error for all of us.

[Roger]

Excellent! I followed your advice with instant satisfactory results. Have you advised Support of this problem? I have, but they say changing the folder name shouldn't be necessary. Perhaps you could provide Support with more information as to why this problem occurs.

[Roger]

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]

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...

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Have a look at http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/91145-is-matlab-2012b-compatible-with-new-mac-os-x-10-9-mavericks#answer_113374

[Joseph]

Hello Walter,

Thanks for your reply but this article did not help me solve my problem. These people had already installed Matlab prior to performing the update whereas, in my case, I updated before I had Matlab installed. I tried downloading Java 6 as some suggested but have not got this to work properly. Am I missing something?

[Walter Roberson]

The people who were trying to install MATLAB on Mavericks were getting the error about the cross-check of whether the distribution was "signed", which required that they take steps to open it as trusted.

You might also want to temporarily go into the system control panel and tell it to allow unsigned applications to install.

[Joseph]

This is not my problem. I have tried your recommendation and still no luck.

[Andrew Gibb]

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.

Answer 3

[Muhammad Iqbal Hamid]

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

Answer 4

[Hector Arismendi]

I have the dame problem, installformacosx doesn't start, only bounces and nothing happens, someone has solve that problem?