Install Support Packages Programmatically

Many MATLAB® and Simulink® products use support packages to interact with hardware or provide additional processing capabilities. This procedure shows how to install support packages programmatically using MATLAB Package Manager (mpm). To install support packages interactively instead, use the Add-Ons panel in MATLAB. For more details, see Get and Manage Add-Ons (MATLAB).

Get MATLAB Package Manager

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 Installation Using Input File

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

From the mpm-input-files folder on GitHub®, open the folder of the MATLAB release for which you want to install support packages, and download a copy of the mpm_input_<release>.txt file.

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

  • Release Update Level (Optional)

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

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

    • updateLevel=0 installs the general release.

    • updateLevel=1 installs update 1.

  • MATLAB Installation Folder (Optional)

    In the destinationFolder line, specify the root folder of the MATLAB installation. If you do not specify destinationFolder, then mpm sets the default destination folder for that computer's platform. If MATLAB is not installed already, then mpm installs MATLAB to the folder you specify in the destinationFolder line.

    To specify the MATLAB installation folder, uncomment the destinationFolder line and specify the path to the folder.

    Linux® or Mac example:

    destinationFolder=/home/<USER>/matlab

    Windows® example:

    destinationFolder=C:\Users\<USER>\matlab

    Note

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

  • Support Packages

    Uncomment the support packages you want to install. For example, this code configures mpm to install two support packages. The required products, MATLAB and Deep Learning Toolbox™, are also included in the installation.

    product.Deep_Learning_Toolbox_Model_for_ResNet-50_Network
# ...
product.Deep_Learning_Toolbox_Model_for_VGG-16_Network

Save the file.

Install Support Packages

Install the support packages using mpm install. Specify the full path to the input file you downloaded and updated.

Linux or Mac:

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

Windows (run as administrator):

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

mpm also installs the required products, MATLAB and Deep Learning Toolbox in this example, if they are not installed already.

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