Install Support Packages on Offline Computer

Many MATLAB^® and Simulink^® products use support packages to interact with hardware or provide additional processing capabilities. To install support packages on an offline computer, you must download the support packages on a computer connected to the internet, copy the support packages to the offline computer, and then install the support packages on the offline computer using MATLAB Package Manager (mpm).

Get MATLAB Package Manager (Requires Internet Connection)

MATLAB Package Manager (mpm) is a command-line tool for installing products and support packages from the operating system command line. To get the latest version of mpm for your platform, follow the instructions in Get MATLAB Package Manager.

Configure Download Using Input File (Requires Internet Connection)

Get the mpm input file for your MATLAB release and use it to configure your support package download.

From the mpm-input-files folder on GitHub^®, open the folder of the MATLAB release for which you want to download support packages, and then download a copy of the input file. For example:

mpm_input_r2024a.txt

In this input file, configure your support package download by uncommenting lines that start with a single # and updating their values.

• Release Update Level (Optional)

  By default, mpm downloads the latest versions of MATLAB support packages for the given release.

  To download a specific release update, uncomment the updateLevel line and change the update level. For example:

  • updateLevel=0 downloads the general release.

  • updateLevel=1 downloads update 1.

• Download Folder (Required)

  Uncomment the destinationFolder line and specify a download folder.

  Linux^® or Mac example:

  destinationFolder=/home/<USER>/downloads/mathworks

  Windows^® example:

  destinationFolder=C:\Users\<USER>\Downloads\MathWorks

• Platforms (Optional)

  By default, mpm downloads support packages for the platform of the computer that runs the mpm download command.

  If you plan to install the support packages on computers that have different platforms, copy the following code block into the input file, and then uncomment the platforms of those computers.

  ## Uncomment the lines for the platforms you want to download products for.
  
  #platform.glnxa64
  #platform.win64
  #platform.maca64
  #platform.maci64

  For example, the code below downloads support packages for Linux (glnxa64), Windows (win64), Mac Apple silicon (maca64), and Mac Intel^® (maci64) platforms.

  platform.glnxa64
  platform.win64
  platform.maca64
  platform.maci64

• Support Packages

  Uncomment the support packages you want to download. For example, the code below configures mpm to download two support packages. The required products, MATLAB and Simulink, are also included in the download.

  product.MATLAB_Support_Package_for_Arduino_Hardware
  # ...
  product.Simulink_Support_Package_for_Arduino_Hardware

Save the file.

Download Support Packages (Requires Internet Connection)

Download the support packages using mpm download. Specify the full path to the input file you downloaded and configured.

Linux or Mac:

./mpm download --inputfile=/path/to/file/mpm_input_<release>.txt

Windows:

.\mpm.exe download --inputfile="\path\to\file\mpm_input_<release>.txt"

Copy Downloaded Support Packages to Offline Computer

Make the downloaded folder available for installation on the offline computer by doing one of the following:

• Copy the folder to a shared network drive that the computer can access.

• Copy the folder directly to the computer using removable media.

Install Support Packages on Offline Computer

In the downloaded folder, navigate to the mpm/<arch> subfolder, where <arch> is the platform architecture of the target computer, such as glnxa64 (Linux) or win64 (Windows). This subfolder contains the version of mpm that you can use to install the downloaded support packages. On Linux and Mac platforms only, give executable permissions to mpm so that you can run it.

Linux or Mac:

cd /path/to/download/folder/mpm/<arch>
chmod +x mpm

Windows:

cd "\path\to\download\folder\mpm\<arch>"

Install the downloaded support packages on the target computer using mpm install.

• Using the --source option, specify the absolute path to the downloaded folder.

• Using the --destination option, specify the absolute path to the MATLAB installation folder. If MATLAB is not installed already, then mpm installs it to this location.

  Note

  You cannot use --destination to set the support package installation folder. mpm automatically derives this folder from the product installation folder specified by --destination. To change the support package installation folder, install MATLAB and then run the function matlabshared.supportpkg.setSupportPackageRoot (MATLAB).

• Using the --products option, specify the support packages you want to install. mpm also installs the required products, MATLAB and Simulink in this example, if they are not installed already.

Linux or Mac:

./mpm install --source=/path/to/download/folder --destination=/path/to/install/folder --products=MATLAB_Support_Package_for_Arduino_Hardware Simulink_Support_Package_for_Arduino_Hardware

Windows (run as administrator):

.\mpm.exe install --source="\path\to\download\folder" --destination="\path\to\install\folder" --products=MATLAB_Support_Package_for_Arduino_Hardware Simulink_Support_Package_for_Arduino_Hardware

Add Support Packages to Existing Offline Installation

Download additional support packages to add to the offline installation. Because you installed all required products in the previous steps, specify the --no-deps option to omit them from the download.

Linux or Mac:

./mpm download --release=R2024a --destination=/path/to/download/folder --products=MATLAB_Support_Package_for_Raspberry_Pi_Hardware Simulink_Support_Package_for_Raspberry_Pi_Hardware --no-deps

Windows:

.\mpm.exe download --release=R2024a --destination="\path\to\download\folder" --products=MATLAB_Support_Package_for_Raspberry_Pi_Hardware Simulink_Support_Package_for_Raspberry_Pi_Hardware --no-deps

You can then copy the downloaded support packages to the offline machine and install them using mpm install, as shown in the previous sections.