Installation instructions

The following instructions seem a bit complicated, but cleanly handle adding qum and all relevant subdirectories to the MATLAB path ignoring the subversion .svn subfolders and the various MATLAB class subdirectories and adding java classes properly.

Windows

• Save startup.m and cgenpath.m to $matlabroot\toolbox\local.
  $matlabroot is the MATLAB Installation directory (something like C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2008b\)

• Set the environment variable MATLABHOME:
  

  • Right-click on My Computer

  • Select Properties: the System Properties panel appears

  • Click on the Advanced Tab

  • Click on the Environment variables button

  • Click on New under the panel "User variables for _your_user_name_"

  • Add the following information:

    • Variable name: MATLABHOME

    • Variable value: some directory where you want to checkout "Qu for MATLAB"

  • Create a subdirectory matlab in $MATLABHOME

  • Checkout "Qu for MATLAB" into $MATLABHOME/matlab/qum

  • Start MATLAB and type Qu at the command prompt.

Linux

• Save startup.m and cgenpath.m to $matlabroot/toolbox/local.
  $matlabroot is the MATLAB Installation directory (something like /usr/local/matlab/)

• Set the environment variable MATLABHOME:

  • Edit the file .bashrc in your home directory and add following entries
    
    # Here we set MATLABHOME to the user's home directory
    # but it can be any directory where you have read/write access
    export MATLABHOME=~/

  • You will need to logout and login again for the changes to take effect.

• Create a subdirectory matlab in $MATLABHOME

• Checkout "Qu for MATLAB" into $MATLABHOME/matlab/qum

• Start MATLAB and type Qu at the command prompt.

Mac OS X

I don't have a Mac :-( If somebody wants to write some installation instructions and contribute them I would really appreciate.