I have to use Matlab for a college course. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to the web-based version of Matlab, and I’m not allowed to use open-source alternatives such as Octave. I wasn’t able to find Matlab in nixpkgs (understandably), and was wondering how to install it on my NixOS system by creating my own derivation.
This might be somewhat hard. I would start by trying steam-run.
There is an expression in GitHub - markuskowa/NixOS-QChem: Nix derivations for HPC/Quantum chemistry software packages by @markuskowa.
All that wrapping is of course slightly version dependent.
I asked a friend to give me the FHS environment expression we debugged together based on the code by others but tested to make a specific set of versions of Matlab and some other maths software work; here it is: 7c6f434c-configurations/matlab-fhs-env.nix at 7fe35d36308fcd9089413727aa31af35c9728521 · 7c6f434c/7c6f434c-configurations · GitHub (similar to steam-run solution, only without Steam)
(I was just in a Nixpkgs support role, so I do not know what exact version of Matlab was used)
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I use the FHS environment also to run the Matlab installer. The FHS solution is not perfect but it gets the job done (I use it on a daily basis).
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After lots of debugging, the FHS solution worked. Thank you so much!
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After lots of debugging, the FHS solution worked. Thank you so much!
Maybe you could post your version of the environment definition, too?
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1.5 years ago I also created an fhs env with a nix-shell and some scripts. It’s a bit quirky (especially the shell part) but it worked back then. Maybe it helps someone. In the nix shell I could install it without problems, and later I just started it with the matlab script.
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(Sorry for the late reply). I wrote an explanation of my process here, which has a link to the environment definition I used. The definition might have some extra packages here and there, but it works.
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