How do I download and install documentation on offline machines?

How do I download and install documentation on offline machines?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

R2023a and later

Follow the instructions from the link below. The page also includes the UI to download the documentation.

Install Documentation on Offline Machines

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2023a/install/ug/install-documentation-on-offline-machines.html

Please note that if you are using Linux, you should not install the documentation as the root user. Otherwise, documentation will only be accessible to the root user.

If you need to change MATLAB settings to use offline documentation and do not have access to the MATLAB GUI, run the command below in the MATLAB Command Window:

s=settings, s.matlab.help.DocLocation.PersonalValue='INSTALLED'

 

R2022b and older

Documentation is installed during installation and there are no options during installation to exclude it. You may use Preferences in MATLAB to specify to use offline documentation rather than online documentation.

[Michal]

Off-line documentation R2023a installed by steps described here does not work at all on Linux machines.

[Michal]

Ubuntu 22.04

[Jan Studnicka]

In the instructions NEW_DOCROOT from the Step 3 is not the same as destinationfolder set in the Step 2 as someone would expect. NEW_DOCROOT is destinationfolder/help.

For example, if you specify a different location for the documentation with

--destination=/home/jan/Documents/MyDocumentation

you need to add the line

docroot('/home/jan/Documents/MyDocumentation/help')

in startup.m

Online documentation has already been updated and this comment is no longer relevant.

[Bruno Luong]

Is the ISO file has a version, does it associated with a specific MATLAB release/update? How do I know my documentation version is up-to-date or not? Do I have to install the doc file when I update the MATLAB?

I can go on with a bunch of similar questions.

[Michal]

@MathWorks Support Team Same question as @Bruno Luong ... Is the ISO docs file (available here) updated to correspond Matlab releases updates (After release of R2023a_update1 is the R2023a_Doc_xxx.iso still the same)?

[Bruno Luong]

@James the question is about specification and general update workflow, not whereas we need to update right now.