Hi,

I bought a new laptop with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). I tried to install MATLAB 6.5 
(R13). I faced many problems and I will try to list them in that sequence with the 
steps that I took to overcome them. However, the final result is that MATLAB fails to 
launch!

1. When I tried to install MATLAB first time, it said OroborOS X failed to launch 
XDarwin and therefore it cannot install MATLAB. I have no idea what it means :). 
Anyways, I went to the Mathworks website and downloaded the patch for Panther w/o 
realizing that the patch is supposed to work more for their Service Pack 1 release 
rather than the original R13 release.

2. Mathworks said I need to have X11 installed - so i downloaded X11 from Apple's 
website and then also used the patch from MathW website to install MATLAB. The 
installation went smooth. 

3. Once I finished installing, I managed to ensure that license server starts up well 
on bootup. However, the problem I am facing still is this: When I invoke matlab, it 
says "You are not the owner of Windows Manager process nor you are the root. ...." 
Therefore Java is not invoked and the command terminates by saying undefined symbols 
_tgetentr, etc.   Then I tried invoking using the Launchmatlab command, which fails to 
launch matlab saying that /bin/mac/setsid in Line 9 of launch_matlab.sh is not valid 
since it cannot find  setsid. 

I even ran the MATLAB patch after the installation, and I have no idea what it changed.

So my Q. is can I make MATLAB R13 work with Panther or do i HAVE to wait for Service 
Pack 1. Why does $MATLAB/bin/mac/setsid not exist for Panther? The launch_matlab.sh 
command carries a line

open -a X11

All the solutions that I have seen so far either ask me to get Service Pack 1 or say 
that MATLAB is now compatible with X11 and therefore I should modify the 
launch_matlab.sh so that it starts X11. But the version of this shell file that I have 
does launch X11. Then, where is the problem?

If someone can help me in this matter, I would be extremely grateful.

Thank you very much for reading this long post with patience!

regards
arun

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