what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application during installation

So, I'm running a fresh install of Manjaro Gnome and I'm trying to install matlab. I downloaded the installer, unpacked but when I try to run "bash ./install" it gives me the error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application

Matlab version is R2020a.

[Raghu Yelugam]

I am experiencing the same problem with the latest version of Matlab. I tried running matlab-support from AUR however it requires gconf, which appears to be deprecated - to make things worse it doesn't install. Any help would be really appreciated.

[Adria Cusido Mas]

I am having the same problem trying a fresh install on KDE neon. Would appreciate a solution.

[Daniel Morberg]

Try running /bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow and see if you are missing 'libselinux.so.1'. If that is the case, grab it from the AUR and then see if the issue is resolved

[Nicolò Giaccone]

I have the same probleme on manjaro KDE. The installer doesn't run. I downloaded the installer two times but i have always the same problem

[Duncan Salmon]

I installed libselinux from the AUR and it fixed it as well. As for the installer on manjaro, I couldn't get the original to work either, I had to use the unix-legacy-installer to get it to work.

[Matthew Shapiro]

THANK YOU Daniel Morberg!! Solved for Manjaro KDE

[Federico Matteo Bencic]

@Daniel Morberg - solved for Manjaro i3

[Volodymyr Kozachynskyi]

THANK YOU Daniel Morberg!! Solved for VoidLinux

[Nikita Ermishin]

THANK YOU Daniel Morberg!! Solved for Manjaro Gnome

[David Foster]

Thank you Daniel Morberg! Solved for Matlab R2021a on Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7.9)

[Shashwat]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MATLAB#Unable_to_launch_the_MATLABWindow_application

This worked for my manjaro kde in 2022

[shuaikang yan]

Thank you for your answer.Insufficient permissions in ’MATLABWindow’ caused this issue to occur

Answer 1

[shichao ni]

You are missing 'libselinux.so.1"

yay -S libselinux

and retry

[Marcello Carboni]

I tryied downloading it using pacman but it didn't find the package, so I downloaded it from the AUR and now it works! Thanks!

[Jasper Vinkenvleugel]

I have the same error on Fedora 32, but libselinux is already installed. What else could be wrong?

See: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/514366-error-while-installing-matlab-r2020a-on-fedora-32?s_tid=prof_contriblnk

[Evamvid Sharma]

Try using the method described here to diagnose what might be going wrong:

https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/364551-why-is-matlab-unable-to-run-the-matlabwindow-application-on-linux

[Ingmar Schoegl]

I'm having the same issue on Fedora 32 (i.e. I have libselinux installed as well). The provided link does not yield any clues ...

This is all I get:

$ sh ./install

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

what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application

Aborted (core dumped)

[Nikolai Mareev]

Worked for Archlinux 5.7.6-arch1-1

[Demyan Yarmoshik]

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829790#c9

Answer 2

[Atharva Naik]

If you are using MATLAB(>=2022a), follow these steps...

cd <matlab installer root directory>
cd /bin/glnxa64
ls | grep libfreetype
mkdir exclude
mv libfreetype.so.x.xx.x exclude/

Thank you David Scholz (github: pgrepds) for the gist.

[Andreu Angles Castillo]

This is the one that worked for me.

Thanks very much!!

[Zulkifli Hidayat]

This is also works well for me. Thanks a lot

[Saifur Rahman]

This solution worked for me as well.

[Chris Burschyk]

Thanks that worked for me as well!

[Francesco Lorenzi]

Thank you for the fix!

[Muhammad Abdullah]

Thanks, it worked for me on Fedora 36

[Srijal Poojari]

Worked for me as well, on Fedora 36

[MAURO]

This work for me!! Thanks! Manjaro 21

[Mark Thomas]

Worked for me with R2022b on Fedora 37.

Note:

1. Remove the leading '/' on the second cd command!;
2. Last command "mv libfreetype.so.* exclude/", to remove the empty symlink.

[Kobe Sauwens]

@Mark Thomas hero, thanks a lot! Worked on Fedora 36!

[Kartik]

Thank you this worked for me. (Using Arch linux on BSPWM DE)

[Rami]

This worked for me, Arch on Wayland + Sway.

[Roberto]

NICE,

it works!!!

[Sagnik Chatterjee]

Thanks

[Tariq Soliman]

Worked on Mint 21.3

[Sreejith Thazhathe Veetil]

This worked for me in installing MATLAB 2022b on Ubuntu 24.04.1. But while runnig the matlab is not showing the icon, instead it shows the gear icon.

Any solution?

Answer 3

[Brian Zelenke]

The MATLAB 2020a installer contains its own shared library libcrypto.so.1.1, but uses the system library libk5crypto.so.3. System library libk5crypto.so.3 uses new symbols, which system library libcrypto.so.1.1 has, but MATLAB's library libcrypto.so.1.1 doesn't. So, you have to delete the MATLAB installer's copy of libcrypto.so.1.1. The sequence of commands that worked for me in RHEL 8.2 were:

cd /home/YourUserName/Downloads/matlab_R2020a_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64
rm libcrypto.so.1.1
sudo su -
cd /home/YourUserName/Downloads/matlab_R2020a_glnxa64
export DISPLAY=':0'
./install

That got the installer to work.

P.S. -- When I got to the step of entering my MathWorks account password in the resulting MATLABWindow application, the password field wouldn't let me type until I selected "Show Details" from the "MathWorks Product Installer" drop-down menu in the top menu bar and then clicked back into the main screen of the MATLABWindow application. Basically, I think I had to remove and restore focus on the MATLABWindow application main screen to get the password field working again.

P.P.S. -- Thanks to Petr at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829790 for pointing me in the right direction on this.

[SungHyun Cho]

Thanks!!! It works!!! (fedora 32)

[Elisa R]

Same here. Thanks! Fedora 32

[David Pippin]

Thanks so much Brian, that worked!!!!!! You've saved me hours.

[Tom Voss]

Also fixes CentOS 8. Thanks!

[Diego Gonzalez Plata Cortes]

Thanks! needed this for Fedora 32

[Matthias Theodor Schaufelberger]

Thanks! This also fixed the installer for 2020b on Fedora 33.

[Eilert]

This also helps for installing Matlab 2021a on Fedora 33.

After downloading the full files I renamed the crypto lib, and called the install script.

mv bin/glnxa64/libcrypto.so.1.1 bin/glnxa64/libcrypto.so.1.1_orig

Using the online loading installer was difficult, because the size of my tmp dir (with tmpfs) was too small, but that also depends on the amount of Toolboxes etc. that needs to be installed.

[Manuel Schneckenreither]

see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/tkas9q/comment/i2h3r5t/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Answer 4

[逸飞 吴]

The above answers don't work for me.

My solution is to run

bin/glnxa64/install_unix_legacy

from my home directory (or it will complain and exit), and things get to work well.

If you want to install MATLAB to somewhere outside your home directory, don't forget to add sudo.

[逸飞 吴]

P.S. My OS is Manjaro KDE.

[Manuel Dominguez-Pumar]

This worked perfectly well in a Fedora 32

[Luis Fernando Melendez Bustamante]

Same, worked 2 perfectly well in a Fedora 33 at 2021/02/26

[Eilert]

For Matlab 2021a this file no longer exists.

Instead there is :

bin/glnxa64/install_unix_legacy

On Fedora33 this gives the same error as the main install script.

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

what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application. The exit code was: 127

[Domingo Gonzalvez]

In Matlab 2021 the file is install_unix. I confirm on Fedora 33 there is the same error and Matlab is not installed. How is it possible to install Matlab ?

[John Dey]

install_unix_legacy is missing from R2021b

[Ilya]

😆you soo much!!! Manjaro 22

Answer 5

[Shuai Xu]

Thanks to the answer1 and answer2, the following operations worked for me.[Background: install matlab on remote servers]

sudo apt install xfce4
sudo apt remove xfce4 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install libnss3

[Mohamed Gharbi]

Thanks a lot to Shuai Xu

It works for me with Matlab 2023b

Answer 6

[Merera Taresa]

i install matlab 2022b. but it didn't open on linux system of chromebook. what shall i do?

Answer 7

[alessandro]

Using linux mint 22.1 and trying to install Matlab 2024a, ran into the same error.

Run MATLABWindow manually to get detailed information:

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow

I got these errors:

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgallium-24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1.so)

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.13' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1)

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1)

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1)

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.74)

The problem is that the installation tries to use the libraries given by Matlab but they are outdated.

Solution: rename the libraries (and their simbolic links) inside the folder you downloaded from the Matlab site so the installer will seek the libraries in your computer:

cd /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak
cd /home/alessandro/Downloads/matlab_R2024a_Linux/sys/os/glnxa64/
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak

[Kenan]

this worked on centos

Answer 8

[Tashrif Tashrif]

I got this error from MATLAB/2023 installer on CentOS 7.6 . I tried a few things people suggested up there. None worked. So I downgraded to MATLAB/2022. No more error while launching the installer.