Installing user-provided MATLAB toolboxes

Downloading and installing CVX, VLFeat, MOSEK, YALMIP, etc. using postInstall functionality.

MATLAB does not have a built-in package manager, so you'll need to use the postInstall script to download and install additional toolboxes. For using curl in the postInstall to download file, you will need to add curl to apt-get in the Environment Editor.

CVX:

The shell script below downloads the CVX archive from the CVX Research website using curl , extracts it using tar , and runs the MATLAB command that sets up the toolbox:

#!/bin/bash
curl -s http://web.cvxr.com/cvx/cvx-rd.tar.gz | tar zx
matlab -nodisplay -r "cd cvx; cvx_setup()"

VLFeat:

VLFeat can be similarly installed using the following script (first, install build-essential through apt-get):

#!/bin/bash
set -ex
VLFEAT_RELEASE=0.9.20

curl -L http://www.vlfeat.org/download/vlfeat-$VLFEAT_RELEASE-bin.tar.gz | tar xz
cd vlfeat-$VLFEAT_RELEASE
make clean
make 

matlab -nodisplay -r "addpath('/vlfeat-$VLFEAT_RELEASE/toolbox'); vl_setup; savepath;"

(Note that the make clean and make steps may not be necessary for your capsule, and that you should set VLFEAT_RELASE to whatever your code needs.)

YALMIP:

Similarly, YALMIP can be installed together with MOSEK (first, please install bzip2 via apt-get) using the following script:

#!/bin/bash
YALMIP_RELEASE=R20171121
MOSEK_RELEASE=8.1.0.31

curl -sL https://github.com/yalmip/YALMIP/archive/$YALMIP_RELEASE.tar.gz | tar xz
curl -sL https://d2i6rjz61faulo.cloudfront.net/stable/$MOSEK_RELEASE/mosektoolslinux64x86.tar.bz2 | tar xj

matlab -nodisplay -r \  "addpath('/mosek/8/toolbox/r2014a'); addpath(genpath('/YALMIP-$YALMIP_RELEASE')); savepath;"

libsvm:

For libsvm, add the build-essential package (that includes make and gcc , among others) as an apt-get dependency so that the MEX files can be compiled. Here's a script that installs version 3.20 from GitHub:

#!/bin/bash
set -ex

curl -sL https://github.com/cjlin1/libsvm/archive/v320.tar.gz | tar xz
cd libsvm-320/matlab

make all MATLABDIR=/MATLAB -j$(nproc)

matlab -nodisplay -r "addpath('$PWD'); savepath"

SeDuMi:

mkdir deps && cd deps
curl -L https://github.com/sqlp/sedumi/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xz
cd .. 

matlab -nodisplay -r "addpath(genpath('deps')); savepath"