Installing MATLAB 2016a onto ubuntu 16.04?

Question

Hey I recently built a computer and put ubuntu 16.04 onto it. Now I'm going through and adding different software packages. One of them that I got is MATLAB 2016a which I have no idea how to install on a Linux system. I've really never used one before so please excuse the learning curve. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to go about doing this?

I have the downloaded the zip file but I can't seem to extract the file. That seem to be the portion I'm stuck on. Thanks in advance.

Solution 1

1. If unzip command isn't already installed in your system, run:

   sudo apt-get install unzip
   

2. Go to the directory you downloaded Matlab .zip file:

   cd /path/to/download/directory
   

3. Unzip the file:

   unzip downloaded_matlab_zip_file.zip -d matlab_destination_directory
   

4. Navigate to matlab_destination_directory:

   cd matlab_destination_directory
   

5. Run the Matlab installer:

   ./install
   

6. Follow these installation steps from the vendor.

Solution 2

Important hint: The MATLAB installation wizard may get stuck creating the installation directory (by default /usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a) because it does not have enough write permissions. If that happens, the easy solution is to run the Matlab installer as a super user

sudo ./install

A useful post regarding this issue in particular is here: How to get permissions to a folder in an installation process?

Comments

[edwinksl]

Take a look at the instructions for Linux at mathworks.com/help/install/ug/install-mathworks-software.htm‌​l.

[Paul J]

Alright thank you. I was a bit lost but was able to get the installation going with these instructions.