Installing FreeMat from Source

For Linux and other Unix-like systems, installation of FreeMat should be pretty straightforward. Assuming that you have a reasonable system setup, the following build instructions should work. First unpack the source tar file:

   tar xvfz FreeMat-1.10.tar.gz

or using

   gunzip FreeMat-1.10.tar.gz
   tar -xvf FreeMat-1.10.tar

This will create a new directory FreeMat-1.10 containing all the FreeMat files. Next we configure the source code (this step customizes the code for your environment). From the FreeMat-1.10 directory, run configure:

  ./configure --prefix=<mydir>

where <mydir> is the directory under which FreeMat will be installed. The default installation directory is /usr/local but this requires administrator priviledges. The simplest solution is to use your own home directory, such as:

   ./configure --prefix=/home/username

In this case, FreeMat will be installed in /home/username. Then, again from the FreeMat-1.10 directory, perform a make and a make install:

   make
   make install

Once installation is complete you must set up your FreeMat path (see Subsection 1.1.2).