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To install MATLAB on a personal computer, Mathworks accounts must be set up.
MATLAB may notify you that your license will expire after a certain number of days. This message refers to the university-wide license that is updated once per year. When it is updated, you may need to run an installer to ensure the updated license is applied to your installation. Please see the TAG ANCHOR section of this knowledge article for instructions on applying license updates.
Please note that this only applies to MATLAB installations on personal devices; license updates are applied automatically to UTD machines.
Important: For installation on
UTD computers, please
do not use a personal install.
Instead, submit a ticket to the
OIT Service Desk to request an installation to be associated with the site license.
- Visit UTD’s MATLAB Portal.
- Select Sign in to get started under the "Get MATLAB and Simulink" section.
- Click on Sign In if you already have an account.
- Click on Create one! if you do not have an existing account and enter the required details.
Note: You must sign in using your UTD email to gain access.
- Click the Download icon for the current release.
- In this section, you can also download previous releases.
- Choose a supported platform and download the installer.
- Run the Installer.
- Enter your UTD Email to sign in and click Next.
- Enter your password and click Sign In.
- Accept the license agreement by clicking on Yes > Next.
- Select the Academic – Total Headcount license labeled "MATLAB (Individual)" when prompted to do so > Next.
- Confirm your user details > Next.
- Select the destination folder by clicking Browse > Next.
- Check the box for the products you want to download and select Next.
- Select the given two options if relevant > Next.
- Confirm the details and select Begin Install.
- Click Close once the installation is complete.
- The new MATLAB key will be saved once you activate it.
- Your MATLAB installation will use the old key until it expires, then it will switch to the new key.
- You should already have a mathworks.com account from when you activated or installed MATLAB.
- You can launch the activation app from within MATLAB or from the operating system command line.
Note: Release R2022b is illustrated; adjust appropriately for a different release.
- On the "Home" tab, select Resources> Help > Licensing.
- Select Activate Software.
Windows® Systems:
Linux and MacOS Systems:
- Double-click the activation application icon in the MATLAB application package. To view the contents of the MATLAB application package, right-click (or Ctrl+click) the package and select Show Package Contents.
After following the above steps pertaining to your system...
- Navigate to your MATLAB installation folder and open the activation application, and continue using the below.
Windows Systems:
- Double-click the
MathWorksProductAuthorizer.exe file in matlabroot\bin\$ARCH folder, where matlabroot is your MATLAB installation folder, and $ARCH is a platform-specific subfolder, for example: matlabroot\bin\win64 .
Linux and macOS Systems:
- Run
MathWorksProductAuthorizer in the matlabroot\bin\$ARCH, folder, where matlabroot is your MATLAB installation folder, and $ARCH is a platform-specific subfolder, for example: matlabroot\bin\glnxa64 folder.
Continue with the following steps...
- Enter your UTD NetID to sign in and click Next.
- Select the Academic - Total Headcount license > Next.
- Confirm your user details and click Next.
- Click on Activate to confirm.
- Once the activation gets completed, click Close.
