Whole Tale Matlab installation

This repo can be used to build the matlab-install image used by the Whole Tale repo2docker_wholetale MatlabBuildPack.

Installing Matlab using the buildpack requires access to the ~20GB installation media as well as license and private installation key. After downloading the full installation media as ISO image, this repo is used to build a Docker image containiner just required installation files. The buildpack relies on the Docker buildkit RUN --mount
feature to install Matlab products and toolboxes.

Build steps:

• Download installation media (iso), license, and key
• Clone this repo
• Mount ISO
• Create network.lic
• Build image

Note on licenses

Whole Tale uses institutional licenses from Jetstream (Indiana University, Univeristy of Texas at Austin). Licenses are now also available from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Download installation media

For U of I staff, the installation media and licenses can be obtained from https://webstore.illinois.edu/.

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/whole-tale/matlab-install
cd matlab-install

Mount ISO

Mount the downloaded ISO into the matlab-install subdirectory:

sudo mount -o loop /<path-to-iso>/RYYYYx_Linux.iso ./matlab-install/

Where YYYYx is 2019b, 2020a, etc.

Create file network.lic for site where image will be deployed.

Build the image

In addition to the 20GB ISO, building the image requires at least 40GB of disk space:

docker build -t matlab-install:R2019b .

Note: For now, I assume that the image will be imported to the local VM cache via docker import. In the future, we may decide to push the install images to registry.wholetale.org.