How do i obtain a PLP?

I have a University license but I am trying to install Matlab 2006, how do I obtain a PLP? Or how do I install it using my university license?

[John D'Errico]

That is a really, really old release, closer to the days when they sent it out on floppy disks than I want to think. I would first check to verify your computer can run it.

https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/previous-releases.html

[Steven Lord]

I'd be curious why the poster feels they need to run a release of MATLAB that's nearly 20 years old. Is it because that's the last release that some other package they're using states it supports (in which case I'd check if it works in a later release), that they know of a change made in release R2006b or R2007a that breaks their workflow, personal preference (that might have been around the introduction of the toolstrip interface, I don't remember off the top of my head), it is the last release supported on the old hardware they're using, or something else?

[Niloufar]

I have a code which is 20 years old and simulink based. <so >I thought <I'll run it on there and save the simulink and open the simulink in the newer versions.

[Image Analyst]

It would be easier to first run it on the latest version to see if it still works, rather than try to install an antiquated version. Did you try that? It will probably run and save you the trouble of installing a dinosaur.

Not sure what "a code" is - is that an m-file script or a Simulink module? What do you mean by "save the simulink"? If Simulink is installed on your computer, it's already "saved" as a suite of files in folders on your computer. Isn't your code file already saved?

[Walter Roberson]

If you were to install the old version, then you would not be able to use that old version to save as a newer version. You have to use a new version to open the old version and save as a newer version.

I would expect that you would probably need to save new versions in stages. Open the file with a release near R2012b and save it, then roughly R2021b, and then the latest release. If it contains Electrical components then you might need roughly R2023a as a stage.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You need to contact Mathworks Support in order to get a PLP. Mathworks sort of ran out of PLP, so Mathworks will provide you with a substitute PLP together with an individual authentication file that is system-dependent.

You might need to run an old operating system in a virtual machine in order to get that old of a release to work.