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]

For offline access to MATLAB documentation for the latest release, please follow the download and installation instructions contained in the following link. 

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

For previous releases, starting with R2023a:

1. Visit this link
2. Select the desired release
3. On the right side of the screen, select "Installation Help"
4. In the center of the screen, select the link "Install Products"
• (R2023b only) click "Install Documentation"
5. Under the section with the header "Offline Installation", select "Install Documentation on Permanently Offline Machines"

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'

Note: If using a version of the MATLAB Package Manager (MPM) that is not included with the documentation ISO, you will need to point the --source flag to the /archives folder of the mounted ISO, rather than just the root of it. This should not be necessary if using the MPM that is packaged with the ISO.

For R2022b and older:

Documentation is already included with the installation of MATLAB 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.