Running The COMSOL Installer
The steps for running the COMSOL Installer are independent of the installation media option you use. If you have followed the above instructions, the COMSOL Installer should now appear. For a detailed description and screenshots of the different COMSOL Installer steps, see the instructions for Windows in the section Running the COMSOL Installer. The procedure for running the COMSOL Installer on Linux is similar and summarized below with the differences from installation on Windows highlighted:
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When the installer window appears, click New Installation.
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Read the license agreement, select I accept the terms of the license agreement, specify License information, and then click Next.
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If you have a Named Single User License and you are installing the software on the license server, a dialog box opens up and you are asked to enter the user to bind the license to.
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Select the products to install and specify the path to the COMSOL installation directory.
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Click Next.
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If you have licensed LiveLink™ for MATLAB® or LiveLink™ for Simulink®, then specify the MATLAB root folder.
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Click Next.
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Click Install to start the installation.
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When the installation process is finished, the Finish window appears. If errors arose during installation, this window issues a notification. The installer also writes a log entry into the text file comsolsetup.log, which resides in the specified installation directory. Click Close to quit the installer. If you installed from DVD, use the unmount and eject commands to unmount and eject the DVD. Some Linux configurations automatically unmount and eject the DVD when you press the DVD drive button.
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To make sure all users can easily start COMSOL Multiphysics, include the comsol61/bin directory in all users’ paths or make a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/comsol to the comsol command (see the Linux ln command). The installer can do this step automatically if you run the installer as an administrator.
You may also need to install the fonts (using the normal Linux distribution methods) for the languages that you want to use when running COMSOL Multiphysics.