Unable to install MATLAB2021b on a linux platform server.

Hi all,

I want to install Matlab 2021b on a institute server but I am getting following error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'

what(): Failed to launch web window with error: Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application. The exit code was: 1

Aborted (core dumped)

How to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

~Md. Kamran

[Yongjian Feng]

What kind of Linux platform? From a terminal, type

cat /etc/os-release

[Kamran Afroz]

@Yongjian Feng Hi,

The details of my working platform:

NAME="SLES"

VERSION="12-SP2"

VERSION_ID="12.2"

PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2"

ID="sles"

ANSI_COLOR="0;32"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12:sp2"

[Yongjian Feng]

Does this Linux have a desktop installation? It seems like the installer has trouble to show a Window.

[Kamran Afroz]

It's a server (HPC) which could be accessed remotely.

[Yongjian Feng]

Try the silent mode installation to avoid this error.

[Kamran Afroz]

Can you explain what is silent mode?

[Yongjian Feng]

Silent mode means you put all the necessary information in a file, so the installer doesn't need to popup any Window for input. This is a guide for Windows.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/install/ug/install-noninteractively-silent-installation.html

You might need to do similar thing on Linux.

[Kamran Afroz]

I have tried installing with silent mode and it worked but when open matlab my screen is flooded with following error:

[Yongjian Feng]

Try run matlab without desktop from terminal: matlab -nodesktop

This will tell if matlab is fine other than the GUI.

Are you sure you have GUI desktop installed on that Linux platform? These message are still about failure to start up a Window.

[Kamran Afroz]

Running matlab using matlab -nodesktop is working.

As I told earlier I am using a remotely accessed server on which lot of other software run which need GUI and the work fine but in case of matlab, Matlab open and along with that the previously uploaded error also shows and when I close error window then Matlab also closes.

[Yongjian Feng]

Maybe that particular desktop version is not supported?

Try to contact matlab support.

Answer 1

[Naga]

To resolve the MATLAB installation error on Linux, install all required libraries using the 'yum' command as documented by MathWorks. If issues persist, run the MATLABWindow script for detailed error messages and install any additional missing libraries. Refer to the following MATLAB answer for more information:

Why does MATLAB fail to install with a "'std::runtime_error' what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow applicati... - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central