Matlab fails to install Fedora 43

I try to install Matlab R2025b on my linux fedora 43 installation and I get an error about failling to load shared libraries

/install

/home/mike/Downloads/matlab_R2025b_Linux/bin/glnxa64/MathWorksProductInstaller: error while loading shared lib

raries: /home/mike/Downloads/matlab_R2025b_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libexpat.so.1: file too short

[Dyuman Joshi]

As Star Strider pointed out below that Fedora 43 is not listed on the Linux System requirements, but you can install it with certain check points (from the same documentation page) -

"It is likely that other distributions with Linux kernel version 4.18 or later and glibc version 2.28 or later can successfully run MATLAB and Simulink, but technical support will be limited."

Answer 1

[Mauricio]

Try to follow these intructions:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/search.html/answers/514575-when-running-the-mathworks-installer-on-linux-why-do-i-get-the-error-install_unix-error-while-loa.html?fq[]=asset_type_name:answer&fq[]=category:support/introduct1740&page=1

The problem may be only how you unzip the installation file, without proper soft/hard links creation during extraction. Run as root:

unzip -X -K matlab_R2021a_glnxa64.zip

Then start the installer.

It worked for me in the case of version 2021a and may work for newer versions too.

[Ivy]

It looks like OP is using Konsole so possibly they are using KDE.

One thing I noticed is that if I'd run into this issue if I used KDE's (and some other Desktops) shipped file archive manager and then click "extract" instead of running the extract command, the GNOME's on the other hand works fine.

But yes, it should work on most releases.