Installation problem: pathdef.m not found, matlab not installed

Hello,

I just installed Matlab R2012a as per my university's instructions. The setup seemed not to finish as normally. Windows asked whether it installed correctly or not. I said yes. No shortcuts or anything created. The program also does not appear in the Installed Programs of my Windows (Win 7 - 64 bit).

Anyhow, after running the application I received the following message:

Warning: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2012a\toolbox\local\pathdef.m not found.
Toolbox Path Cache is not being used. Type 'help toolbox_path_cache' for more info
Undefined function or variable 'ispc'.
Warning: MATLAB did not appear to successfully set the search path. To recover for this session of MATLAB, type "restoredefaultpath;matlabrc". To find out how to avoid this warning the next time you start MATLAB, type "docsearch problem path" after recovering for this session.
Warning: Duplicate directory name: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2012a\toolbox\local.
Warning: Initializing Handle Graphics failed in matlabrc.
This indicates a potentially serious problem in your MATLAB setup,
which should be resolved as soon as possible.  Error detected was:
MATLAB:undefinedVarOrClass
Undefined variable "graphics" or class "graphics.internal.initializeMATLABRoot".
Warning: Initializing Java preferences failed in matlabrc.
This indicates a potentially serious problem in your MATLAB setup,
which should be resolved as soon as possible.  Error detected was:
MATLAB:UndefinedFunction
Undefined function 'usejava' for input arguments of type 'char'.
> In matlabrc at 113 
Warning: Failed to add default profiler filters. 
> In matlabrc at 168

There definitely is a problem with the installation which i don't know how to handle. I tried re-installing the program twice but same thing happened. Also tried to run as Admin.

I found this in the website

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/support/solutions/en/data/1-IMBXXS/index.html?product=ML&solution=1-IMBXXS

which seems to have solved the problem with the pathdef.m file.

But still Matlab is not an 'installed' program as far as control panel is concerned.

Is there any advice on this?

Thanks in advance

dk4

Answer 1

[Thomas]

Mathworks provides free installation support. Please contact them and they should be able to help you

http://www.mathworks.com/support/install.html

[dk4]

Thanks Tom,

after all managed to get my pathdef.m file. Will contact them for the installation issue.