# Oscar: MATLAB ## Loading and Launching MATLAB 1\. Open the Terminal and use the following commands at the command line. 2\. `module avail matlab` to list all the available matlab versions. 3\. `module load matlab/R2018a` to load matlab. This command should return the confirmation “*module loaded*”. 4\. `matlab` to launch the MATLAB app. ## Installing MATLAB Packages such as YALMIP MATLAB script packages, such as [YALMIP](https://yalmip.github.io/ "https://yalmip.github.io/"), can be installed directly by the user on their Oscar account. These instructions assume you are using Oscar via the VNC client. 1\. Open the Terminal on your VNC session. 2\. Navigate to your home folder by typing `cd ~` 3\. `mkdir -p MATLAB` 4\. `wget -O yalmip.zip https://github.com/yalmip/yalmip/archive/master.zip` 5\. `unzip yalmip.zip` 6\. In MATLAB, add the YALMIP-master directory to your path.