Where is it the program on my Mac?

I've just paid for and downloaded R2016a Matlab on my mac (OSX El Capitan version 10.11.5) and I can't find the program. There are lots of files related to the download, and it said it was to be saved to my Applications, but there is no actual Matlab program for me to open and use? Where is it?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

/Applications/MATLAB_R2016a.app is what you would click on. The shell script that sets up the environment is bin/matlab relative to that, and the binary is Contents/MacOS/MATLAB_maci64 relative to the install directory.

[Angela Stacey]

Hi Walter, Thanks for your response. I've done a search for that in my Finder, but nothing comes up. I'm not very computer-literate, would there be a simpler way to explain to me what it is I need to do to get Matlab running?

Thanks!

[Angela Stacey]

Well I just figured out that I need a C compiler on my mac in order to use Matlab. I'm downloading XCode currently. Will this help rectify the problem?

[Walter Roberson]

Double-click on MATLAB_R2016a.app in the /Applications folder.

There is also a possibility that you need to instead look in the Applications folder in your home directory

If both

ls -d /Applications/MATLAB_R2016a.app

and

ls -d ~/Applications/MATLAB_R2016a.app

are missing then your MATLAB did not get installed properly. You should re-run the installer and check to see which directory it suggests installing to.