Unable to launch MATLAB in Ubuntu 22.04

Dear Sir/Madam,

Our college is having campus wide license of MATLAB.

I have installed MATLAB R2023b in my Desktop (Ubuntu Operating System).

I am not able to find MATLAB launcher.

Every time it is becoming difficult for me to launch the MATLAB from Ubuntu Terminal.

Kindly provide your suggestions in resolving this problem.

Answer 1

[Krishna]

Hello Neelakanteshwar,

You can open MATLAB in ubuntu using command line. Apart from that there is a package matlab-support which creates a shortcut for MATLAB in the launcher and applies a few bugfixes created by the community. You can install it with,

sudo apt install matlab-support

Please refer to the following documentation for more information for this step,

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/20-how-do-i-make-a-desktop-launcher-for-matlab-in-linux

Also apart from this you can also make a shortcut using gnome panel like this,

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel 
sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

And then, MATLAB will be in your applications menu icon.

To know more information please refer the following MATLAB answer and documentation,

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93739-how-do-i-launch-matlab-on-linux

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/start-matlab-on-linux-platforms.html

This would help your problem.

[Neelakanteshwar Rao Battu]

[Neelakanteshwar Rao Battu]

After following the steps written in below links I am getting the above error though I am able to open the matlab from the ubuntu terminal

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93739-how-do-i-launch-matlab-on-linux

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/start-matlab-on-linux-platforms.html

Answer 2

[michail]

Hi.

Our college has a wide license of MATLAB. For installation i have run the install script from installation help pdf (xhost +SI:localuser:root, sudo -H ./install). The seccond command (sudo -H ./install) prompt an installation window as you can see in the attached screenshot. When i click on the advanced options->i have a file installation key nothing happens. i have the same problem when i try to type my mail . Any idea?