Permission problems when installing MATLAB R2013b

Question

I am trying to install MATLAB and I am running into some issues with the installer program with Ubuntu 13.10.

I get to the screen which tells me to select the directory I wish to install in, I then select next and it tells me the folder does not exist and asks me if I wish to create a new one; if I select to create the folder it gives me the error:

Failed to create folder (/usr/local/MATLAB/R2013b/)

I then tried to create the folder manually; using sudo mkdir /usr/local/MATLAB/ and then sudo mkdir /usr/local/MATLAB/R2013b/, but the installation continues to fail with the same error.

Has anyone encountered and overcome this error before?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

Try to run the MATLAB installer via terminal using root privileges aka sudo.

• Go into the MATLAB directory via terminal.

• Change install file into an executable one by running

  sudo chmod +x install

• Now run the installer ,

  sudo ./install

Comments

[Avinash Raj]

Did you run the MATLAB installer with root privileges?

[Thomas Russell]

@AvinashRaj I'm not sure, I ran it through the GUI rather than through terminal, so perhaps not?

[Avinash Raj]

Try to run the installer via terminal with sudo.

[Thomas Russell]

@AvinashRaj I can no longer find the installer; do you happen to know where it's usually stored after being downloaded?

[Admin]

Error: Cannot locate Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The directory /home/heru/matlab/sys/java/jre/glnx86/jre does not exist.

[Admin]

Still it shows /tmp/mathworks_2704/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/bin/java: Permission denied

[Avinash Raj]

if you had any problem with matlab then ask it as a question.